DCHP-1 Online
first ice 
the winter's first formation of ice permitting travel on lakes and streams.
- 1821 (1938) "He can get up in the Fall or by the first ice."
- 1929 . . . awaiting first cold day to cross they arrived on very first ice on straits.
- 1821 (1938) "He can get up in the Fall or by the first ice."