buckly a also bucklish*. Of ice, thin and liable to bend or buckle when walked on; RUBBER ICE.
   1913 Evening Telegram 8 Aug, p. 4 "Seen at the Races": The dancing was fine, and the galleries were nice, / They were shaken by dancers like 'buckley ice.' 1937 DEVINE 11 ~ Said of ice on a pond or in a harbour that undulates when walked over. P 148-63 [The] ice is bucklish, not right safe. Q 67-2 Bucklish [ice] is thin salt-water ice.

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