ice-anchor

• “Two Emperor penguins often came to our last moorings to watch us laying out an ice-anchor or hauling on a hawser, while they put their heads on one side and jabbered, and they were given the names of “the Harbour-master and his Missis.””

  The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912

• “On January 29 the ship, after a preliminary trawling had been done in three hundred and twenty fathoms, pushed into the floe and was made fast with an ice-anchor.”

  The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

• “Two Emperor penguins often came to our last moorings to watch us laying out an ice-anchor or hauling on a hawser, while they put their heads on one side and jabbered, and they were given the names of "the Harbour-master and his Missis.”

  The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2

• “The one which stretches away to the north of us, and to which our ice-anchor is attached, cannot be smaller than an English county.”

  The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales

• “A fine lead appeared in the pack this morning, as I had expected, and we were able to cast off our ice-anchor, and steam about twelve miles in a west-sou'-westerly direction.”

  The Captain of the Polestar and other Tales

• “Then another rope was run out over the stern of the ship, and, this being made fast to an ice-anchor in the same way as the other, the ship was soon drawn up with her whole broadside close to the ice, as snug as if she were lying alongside of a dock in New Bedford.”

  Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner

• “We jumped out and dug a hole, and planted the ice-anchor.”

  Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner

• “They are also wonderfully enabled to endure the cold even on those parts of the body which are not thus protected; for we have seen a young puppy sleeping, with its bare paw laid on an ice-anchor, with the thermometer at - 30°, which, with one of our dogs, would have produced immediate and intense pain, if not subsequent mortification.”

  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2

• “The cable and the ice-anchor, the latter a heavy piece of iron, shaped like the letter S, excited much interest.”

  Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe

• “a young puppy sleeping, with its bare paw laid on an ice-anchor, with the thermometer at - 30°, which with one of our dogs would have produced immediate and intense pain, if not subsequent mortification.”

  Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage

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