iceyacht

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1910 · p. 47
A pleasure boat mounted on runners for racing on ice. IMG:content-1431.png:[blocks in formation] " Icing the pole." - Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 183. II. Figuratively : 1. To cover with concreted sugar; to frost. 2. To chill, to freeze. Içe-berg, s. [Eng. ice , and berg (q. v.).] Ord. Lang . & Geol .: A hill of ice which is either floating in the ocean or has somewhere taken the ground. The genesis of an iceberg is generally on the shore; it exists first as a glacier (q.v.) but when this in its onward progre reaches the cliffs and glides down them into the ocean, it loses the name of glacier and takes that of iceberg. Scores by counted 500 of them drifting between lat. 69 and
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