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mush-ice † North 
n. rotten ice.
- 1900 Then he put Tom Dixon in charge of his mines . . . promised to be back before the first mush-ice ran, and took passage on an up-river steamer.
- 1935 In crossing a small upland river that morning they had broken through the rotten "mush ice" and lost their packs, guns, and almost their lives.
- 1940 The Coppermine River began to freeze over and a ribbon of mush-ice spread out into the gulf.
- 1966 They came . . . poling and tracking against the slowly drifting mush ice of the fall. . . .
- 1900 Then he put Tom Dixon in charge of his mines . . . promised to be back before the first mush-ice ran, and took passage on an up-river steamer.