DCHP-3

shore-ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Esp. North

sea ice that is anchored to the shore and extends seaward in a great shelf.

Quotations

1752
At York-fort and Churchill-river I have observed that the ice did not break off close at the shore, but gradually; the first field leaving the shore-ice two or three miles broad, the second less, and so on till it was cleared away.
1864
From the breaking up and consequent absence of the sea ice, which had occurred two days before my arrival, we were obliged to follow the shore-ice, walking on what Dr. Kane called the "ice-foot."
1936
But a lead, widening in the shore-ice, still cut the two fur-clad figures off from the mainland.
1953
They walked across the shore ice, perhaps as far as two miles, and when they came to open water, made their camp there on the ice.
2n.

a shelf of ice anchored to the bank of a river otherwise open.

See: ice-shelf(def. 2)

Quotations

1811
Glush of Ice &c driving--Shore Ice where no Current, but weak. . . .
1922
It hollowed the shore-ice into great milky bubbles. . . .
3n. — North

an ice mass formed by pans drifting to shore and being subjected to showers of freezing spray, eventually becoming barricades between the land and the water.

Quotations

1958
Shore Ice--Sea ice that has been beached and pushed ashore by wind and waves.