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Definition of Black ice
1. Noun. A thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous.
Definition of Black ice
1. Noun. An invisible film of ice over dark surfaces, such as pavement or water, that makes them dangerously slippery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Black Ice
Literary usage of Black ice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. By-ways of Nature and Life by Clarence Deming (1884)
"ON black ice. LATE inNovember, when the sun, even at noon, ... To that artificial
city product, the early black ice in the country is as blue sky to a ..."
2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"These shells look uncommonly large thus exposed; at a distance like leaves.
They lie thickly around the edge of each small circle of thinner black ice in ..."
3. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1899)
"The strongest ice is that generally known as "black" ice, being perfectly clear
and free from air bubbles. It is not really black, but perfectly transparent ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"It had come up through a hole (now black ice) by the stem of a ... It had crossed
the open middle (now thin black ice) and continued its singular trail to ..."
5. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell (London) (1896)
"An inch of this black ice will bear a man's weight comfortably, if its surface
is not ... It is the ice thus formed that is termed by skaters " black ice. ..."
6. By-ways of Nature and Life by Clarence Deming (1884)
"ON black ice. LATE inNovember, when the sun, even at noon, ... To that artificial
city product, the early black ice in the country is as blue sky to a ..."
7. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"These shells look uncommonly large thus exposed; at a distance like leaves.
They lie thickly around the edge of each small circle of thinner black ice in ..."
8. The Young Folk's Cyclopædia of Games and Sports by John Denison Champlin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick (1899)
"The strongest ice is that generally known as "black" ice, being perfectly clear
and free from air bubbles. It is not really black, but perfectly transparent ..."
9. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"It had come up through a hole (now black ice) by the stem of a ... It had crossed
the open middle (now thin black ice) and continued its singular trail to ..."
10. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell (London) (1896)
"An inch of this black ice will bear a man's weight comfortably, if its surface
is not ... It is the ice thus formed that is termed by skaters " black ice. ..."
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