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candle ((v.)) 
v. of ice, form candles.
- 1924 They were having a bad time, for dogs cannot choose good ice from bad, and continually they fell through the rotten, white, "candled" stuff and had to struggle out again.
- 1930 The sun causes the ice to "candle" producing disintigration by vertical weakening while the ice is still thick.
- 1963 The candling ice would support no burden in its fragmented condition.
- 1924 They were having a bad time, for dogs cannot choose good ice from bad, and continually they fell through the rotten, white, "candled" stuff and had to struggle out again.