ice-chisel

And so while the light stays I take a bucket and an ice-chisel, and go down to a small pond below the cabin.

The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

He was the hardest worker, with ice-chisel or pole, and the last to leave a sheet of ice that had broken loose and started down stream.

The Rival Campers Ashore The Mystery of the Mill Ruel Perley Smith 1903

It was clear that a caravan of sledges, drawn by dogs and reindeer, could not possibly get over these blocks; and it was equally clear that a path could not be cut through them with the hatchet or ice-chisel.

The Fur Country 1874

With the aid of his hatchet and ice-chisel he had soon cleared away the earth, and hollowed out a kind of passage sloping gently down to the crust of ice.

The Fur Country 1874

It sculptures the rocks and excavates the valleys, in most cases acting mainly through the soft rain, though our harder rocks are still grooved by the ice-chisel of bygone ages.

The Pleasures of Life John Lubbock 1873

So saying, Frank went off, taking Chimo along with him; while Maximus seized the axe and ice-chisel, and began the laborious process of digging through to the water.

Ungava 1859

Things being thus arranged to his entire satisfaction, he takes an instrument called an ice-chisel -- which is a bit of steel about a foot long by one inch broad, fastened to the end of a stout pole -- wherewith he proceeds to dig through the lodge.

Hudson Bay 1859

Stemaw, by way of showing its teeth, for which it is rewarded with a blow on the head from the pole of the ice-chisel, which puts an end to it.

Hudson Bay 1859

Presented him with an axe, pair of spears, ice-chisel, knife, and a couple of flints, and with sixteen rations of flour, pork, and beans. 10th.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851

Said he had three daughters who had to cut wood every day, and had no axe of their own; that he was in want of an ice-chisel; fever in family.

Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers Schoolcraft, H R 1851