DCHP-3

swish ice

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See sish ice 1918 quote.

Quotations

1835
We have plenty of work for the ice-pounder in this cove and in the bay, as it was full of a species of ice, significantly called by the people, "swish-ice," which, when struck with the oar, makes a sound similar to that of straw when thrashed with a stick.