Definition of "glacier-ice" [glacier-ice]

• The ice of a glacier. It is peculiar in having a granular crystalline structure unlike that of pond-ice. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It brought quantities of glacier-ice into the cove, and by 2 a.m. (may 12) our little harbour was filled with ice, which surged to and fro in the swell and pushed its way on to the beach."
• "The process of decomposition is as different in fresh-water ice and in land-or glacier-ice and that of their formation."
• "There were no glaciers, and no glacier-ice, properly so called."