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iceman 
n. a sailor or sealer experienced at moving about on the ice or in the ice fields.
- 1850 (1851) Ten men formed the number of the working seamen; there were no "ice-masters," nor regular "ice-men:" but most of the sailors were long accustomed to the ice.
- 1907 This little 'tickle,' as it is called, was not quite open water, but a space of slushy, fine fragments of ice on which none can run except the most experienced ice-men.
- 1850 (1851) Ten men formed the number of the working seamen; there were no "ice-masters," nor regular "ice-men:" but most of the sailors were long accustomed to the ice.