ice-cutting

Taking into consideration the crowd of honest laborers that swamped Mr. O'Neil's station-house on the way to the ice-cutting, it is patent, if all tramps were looking for honest labor instead of a small minority, that the honest laborers would have a far harder task finding something honest to do for food and shelter.

THE TRAMP 2010

Icebreaking has traditionally been a role for the Canadian Coast Guard — one it has been loathe to give up — and many have argued that if new ice-cutting ships were to be built they should go to that agency, not the military.

Arctic patrol vessels for the Navy? 2007

Icebreaking has traditionally been a role for the Canadian Coast Guard — one it has been loathe to give up — and many have argued that if new ice-cutting ships were to be built they should go to that agency, not the military.

Archive 2007-05-01 2007

I have been surprised to consider that the only obvious employment, except wood-chopping, ice-cutting, or the like business, which ever to my knowledge detained at Walden Pond for a whole half-day any of my fellow-citizens, whether fathers or children of the town, with just one exception, was fishing.

Walden 2004

Once he had been known to work with an ice-cutting gang, but quit because he was afraid he'd make so much money that it would tempt somebody to rob him.

Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Gordon Stuart

McLean undertook the duties of ice-cutting and coal-carrying throughout the year, kept the biological log and assisted in general observations.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

Thoburn came to the news stand on his way out with the ice-cutting gang to the pond.

Where there's a Will 1912

Taking into consideration the crowd of honest laborers that swamped Mr. O'Neil's station-house on the way to the ice-cutting, it is patent, if all tramps were looking for honest labor instead of a small minority, that the honest laborers would have a far harder task finding something honest to do for food and shelter.

The Tramp 1905

Taking into consideration the crowd of honest laborers that swamped Mr. O'Neil's station-house on the way to the ice-cutting, it is patent, if all tramps were looking for honest labor instead of a small minority, that the honest laborers would have a far harder task finding something honest to do for food and shelter.

War of the Classes Jack London 1896

Most of those huge blocks of ice which you see in the fishmongers 'shops in the summer have come across the North Sea, and ice-cutting is a very important business in the winter months.

Peeps at Many Lands: Norway Nico [Illustrator] Jungman 1893