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rubber ice rubbery ice Esp. North 
thin, flexible ice, especially elastic young sea ice.
- 1916 What the frost had accomplished since dusk could be determined only by trial. "Soft as cheese!" Doctor Luke concluded. "Rubber ice," said Billy.
- 1920 I had no wish to slide on rubber-ice just for the sake of seeing it bend.
- 1951 Sea ice two or three inches thick will bear a man's weight, though it is tricky. We call it "rubber ice," for it is supple and yields beneath your feet without breaking, but there are weak patches.
- 1916 What the frost had accomplished since dusk could be determined only by trial. "Soft as cheese!" Doctor Luke concluded. "Rubber ice," said Billy.