ice-crack

[Illustration: THE RESCUE.] "It wouldn't do for Roxie to come over here alone again," said Jake, probing the ice-crack with his stick.

St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878 Various

An ice-crack, a rock-slide, an explosion of any sort, all of them make the same kind of waves!

Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935

And, if it can, it will crawl into any ice-crack to escape from so much kindness, and there it will freeze.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

No European could have made five miles a day over the ice-rubbish and the sharp-edged drifts; but those two knew exactly the turn of the wrist that coaxes a sleigh round a hummock, the jerk that nearly lifts it out of an ice-crack, and the exact strength that goes to the few quiet strokes of the spear-head that make a path possible when everything looks hopeless.

The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900