bay ice

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Swimming, gulls' egging, clamming, spearing eels through the bay ice, are more in his line than schoolbooks.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were walking over a floe of thick bay ice as the mate told his story.

From Wild Adventures in Wild Places by Stables, Gordon

A collection of pieces of drift or bay ice, joining each other in a ridge following in the line of current.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

We pushed past these cliffs into streams of heavy bay ice, making fair progress; as we proceeded the lanes became scarcer, the floes heavier, but the latter remain loose.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

The bay ice therefore melts away completely during summer, and it is not commonly much pressed together.

From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882