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ice ((n.))

• 1a n. Sealing, Nfld the ice, the seal-hunting grounds on the edge of the icefields in the North Atlantic.

  See also: front, the (def. 3)  sea-ice (def. 2)  

  • 1819  In the same spring, an unusual number of schooners and boats belonging to that bay were totally lost at the ice. . . .
  • 1916  "He's young for the ice," Bill observed.
  • 1961  Hedley Payne . . . who had wangled his very first berth to the ice, walked for two days to Gambo railway station to catch the sealers' car into the capital in time to sign on

• 1b n. leave home to engage in the seal hunt.

  • 1964  Seal hunting is known to Newfoundlanders as "going to the ice," and they have taken to the floes every March for two centuries

• 2 n. Hockey the sheet of ice on which the game is played.

  • 1955  The Shawinigan Cataracts . . . are still undefeated by Chicoutimi on Shawinigan ice. . . .
  • 1966  The little centre was flying ever minute he was on the ice. . . .

• 3 n. Curling the sheet of ice over which the stones are curled.

  • 1911  The ice was capital--for the floor was a wooden one and twenty-four hours' frost had been quite enough. . . .
  • 1956  In the nine o'clock draw on ice number one Hemmingson vs Cochrane. . . .