ice rockn.
/ˈʌɪs rɒk/, U.S. /ˈaɪs ˌrɑk/ A (natural) block of ice; an iceberg. Also: an ice-covered rock (rare). Cf. ice boulder n. at ice n. Compounds 8.
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ice rock1704
ice pan1842
the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > iceberg > [noun]
island of ice1613
shoal1648
ice hill1694
ice rock1704
iceberg1784
mountain of ice1818
berg1823
1704 tr. Acct. Greenland in Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. 451/1 He had brought along with him certain strange Seamen, who..he found upon the Keel of their Ship, cast upon the Ice-rocks.
1784 London Mag. Mar. 239/1 The ocean's lord, enrag'd at the delay, Thro' stubborn, crushing ice-rocks bursts his way.
1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt I. 105 We want no philosophical ice-rock towed into the Dead Sea of modern society to freeze that which is too cold already.
a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) I. 70 Now nothing remains to be discovered but the sandy deserts of Central Africa, and the inaccessible ice-rocks of the North Pole.
1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 172 The danger of lying under the shadow of this great ice-rock.
1920 Fur News Jan. 70/2 Curving abruptly around a jutting ice rock, I stumbled in my weakness over a crouching figure.
1996 Prairie Schooner Fall 81 The boulder wash at the foot of a glacier, great ice rocks that would crack..in the spring.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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