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icebreaker

(Encyclopedia) icebreaker, ship of special hull design and wide beam, with relatively flat bottom, designed to force its way through ice. When the icebreaker charges into the ice at full speed, its…

Brewer's: Break the Ice

(To). To prepare the way; to cause the stiffness and reserve of intercourse with a stranger to relax; to impart to another bit by bit distressing news or a delicate subject. Source:…

Brewer's: Make the Ice

(To). To near the whale-fishing ground. To make for the ice is to steer in that direction. “About the end of April we neared the fishing ground, or, to be more technical, `made the ice.” C…

Brewer's: Field of Ice

A large body of floating ice. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Field of VisionField Works A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W…

Brewer's: Ice-blink

(The). An indication of pack-ice or of a frozen surface by its reflection on the clouds. If the sky is dark or brown, the navigator may be sure that there is water; if it is white, rosy,…

Brewer's: Ice-brook

A sword of ice-brook temper. Of the very best quality. The Spaniards used to plunge their swords and other weapons, while hot from the forge, into the brook Salo [Xalon], near Bilbilis, in…

Brewer's: Ice Saints

or Frost Saints. Those saints whose days fall in what is called “the blackthorn winter” —that is, the second week in May (between li and 14). Some give only three days, but whether 11, 12…

Ice Cube Biography

Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson)musician, actorBorn: 6/15/1969Birthplace: Los Angeles Rap singer and co-founder, with Easy-E and Dr. Dre, of the group N.W.A. (Niggaz with Attitude) who has gone on to a…

Ice Cube

(Encyclopedia) Ice Cube : see Rap music.