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whelping ice Nfld 
See 1918 quote.
- 1918 (n.d.) Then there is the clearer, heavy Arctic ice, with here and there huge icebergs frozen in; and again the smoother, whiter variety known as "whelping ice"--that is the Arctic shore ice, born probably in Labrador, on which the seals give birth to their pups.
- 1958 The sailing vessels always left some days ahead of the steamers, as the former found it hard going through the ice; even so it was the 17th of March before the Elsie got into the "whelping ice" and "struck the fat."
- 1918 (n.d.) Then there is the clearer, heavy Arctic ice, with here and there huge icebergs frozen in; and again the smoother, whiter variety known as "whelping ice"--that is the Arctic shore ice, born probably in Labrador, on which the seals give birth to their pups.