ice block

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noun

Scot, Australian and NZ a flavoured frozen water ice: in Australia and New Zealand, sometimes on a stick

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Words nearby ice block

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How to use ice block in a sentence

Apart from heat lost in transferring the heated body to the ice block, the method is theoretically perfect.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2|Various
By this time the ice-block had come near enough to let the strange object upon it be plainly seen.
Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880|Various
He made out a shapeless white object ahead, and coming to another crack he scrambled to the top of an ice-block and leaped again.
The Long Portage|Harold Bindloss
The grounded piece off our starboard beam was forced in and driven against the big ice block under our starboard quarter.
The North Pole|Robert E. Peary

Selecting the leeward side of an ice block, I dug a trench in the snow, using the fire-pan as a shovel.
The Jesuits, 1534-1921|Thomas J. Campbell