DCHP-1 Online

ice ((v.))

• 1a v. Hockey put a team on the ice, equipped and ready to play.

  • 1955  Counting the three teams, the Kiwanis themselves have iced for inter-service club play, the total comes to 37.
  • 1963  McGill iced many potent and colorful teams but none ever won the Canadian title.

• 1b v. Hockey shoot (a puck) from behind one's own blueline past the red lien at the opposing team's end of the rink.

  See also: icing (def. 2)  

  • 1965  If that puck had slid behind the Montreal goal, the Leafs would have been called for "icing the puck". . . .
  • 1966  Some of the most exciting moments . . . come during the killing of penalties, when the defending team, not allowed to ice the puck into the attacking team's end, must stickhandle or pass to waste . . . time.

• 2 v. North put a glaze of ice on dog-sled runners to reduce friction when the sled is in motion.

  See also: glaze  icing (def. 1)  

  • 1942  Lastly, the runner is 'iced.' A hare's foot or a piece of hairy dog fur is dipped into the warm liquid and run swiftly down the length of the runner. When several layers of ice have been added, the earthing is over. The komatik has been 'shod.'
  • 1951  Dressed at last, Ayallik took a little pot of water with him and went outside to ice his sled.