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1831 M. Griffith Our Neighbourhood xii. 83 On comparing those singular perforations with the projected ice needles, I am of opinion that they are both the result of electricity.

1847 Daily Advertiser 26 May 2/2 (advt.) Ice pounders and casks. Ice needles, and every article connected with the Ice trade.

1873 Young Englishwoman July 334/1 We put in a block as large as the tin will hold, and then with an ice-needle, price one shilling, break up the rest of the ice.

1937 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51 598 A further very rare case occurs when at a high altitude in the ‘ice needle clouds’..a light accretion of hoar frost..forms on the aeroplane.

1970 R. J. Small Study of Landforms x. 323 Another process which leads to the upheaval of material in the active layer [of the soil] is the development of small localised ice-masses and ice-needles (‘pipkraker’).

1981 J. H. Snow in W. C. Sturtevant Handbk. North Amer. Indians: Subarctic 612/2 (table) Fishing devices..ice chisel, ice scoop, ice needle.

1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) vi. 218 If we could, we would make it out of those swirling ice-needles and winds into a forest of snow-draped mountain peaks.