Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fish through a hole in the ice covering a body of water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little fish, the caplin, Mallotus villosus, of the family Argentinidæ, living in arctic American waters and much valued as food. See
caplin . - noun A small translucent fish, Salanx microdon, of the rivers of Japan and China.
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Examples
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As the weather began to warm in March and April, people headed out to numerous inland lakes to ice-fish for lake trout and Arctic char.
Climate change impacts on Canadian Western Arctic~ the Inuvialuit of Sachs Harbour 2009
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I did ice-fish, but only, again, because it was there to do and because staying home to play Scrabble with your sister was for cream puffs.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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I did ice-fish, but only, again, because it was there to do and because staying home to play Scrabble with your sister was for cream puffs.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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I did ice-fish, but only, again, because it was there to do and because staying home to play Scrabble with your sister was for cream puffs.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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I did ice-fish, but only, again, because it was there to do and because staying home to play Scrabble with your sister was for cream puffs.
Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008
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A winter camping trip to ice-fish and hike the snowy mountains.
Ice Hunt Rollins, James, 1961- 2003
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According to them, there was a time that valley was simply another place for their great grandsires to hunt in the summer, and ice-fish in winter.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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According to them, there was a time that valley was simply another place for their great grandsires to hunt in the summer, and ice-fish in winter.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Then Attenborough and his team followed the route of Scott and Amundsen to the Pole, delving into ice-caves around an Antarctic volcano, diving beneath the ice to find upside-down landscapes of plunging stalactites and weird ice-fish and "a relative of the woodlouse as big as a dinner plate", and flying across a strange ice-free land, filled with wind-hollowed boulders.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tom Chivers 2011
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We love to snowmobile, skate and ice-fish ~ care to join us?
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