She held hers as if she was about to chip ice for a highball; I remembered that it had been strictly an emergency weapon with her.

Had to chip ice and frozen mud off my bike with an axe...

They used hammers and picks to chip ice from branches they had to walk on.

I don't need to chip ice from the river.

She used up the snow on her ledge not long after, but it wasn't necessary to chip ice for water anymore.

Mousie was right there, with the big kitchen knife raised as if to chip ice for a highball.

However, I'll lay a month's wage that our clever little pals did more than merely chip ice.

The middle and thick sizes are often called flake ice, chip ice, or granular ice.

That saves me having to go down and chip ice.

The weather was so bad that we had to chip ice off the upper-deck almost round the clock.