Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Fragmentary ice; rubble. See rubble, 3 .

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Examples

  • We worked through the belt of rubble-ice at last, and came up with the heavy old floes and rafters of ice-blocks, larger than very large flag-stones and fully as thick as they were long and wide; the fissures between them full of the drifted snow.

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

  • We were still in the heavy rubble-ice and had to continuously hew our way with pickaxes to make a path for the sledges.

    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole Matthew A. Henson 1888

  • European manufacture for work in rubble-ice, and to push on with the

    A Man's Woman Frank Norris 1886

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