slob v
1 To fill or jam a stretch of water with a slushy, dense mass of ice fragments, snow and freezing water. See SLOB n. Cp QUAR(R) v.
1975 Them Days i (1), p. 8 More ice, more slob ice makin', and it finally accumulates in these rapids and
chokes them... To stop the flow of Hamilton River water is a big accomplishment for anybody. So Nature
would try it by slobbin' it with ice.
2 Phr slob haul, slop ~ : to pull a boat through a sea covering of heavy, slushy ice and snow with a wooden implement shaped like a mattock; cp SLOB HAULER.
1949 FITZGERALD 93 ~ The slow process of hauling a boat through slob with rakelike instruments instead of oars. T 172/4-65 Aboard o' the boat sometimes we'd have to launch, more times we'd have to slop-haul. You get back in the stern o' the boat, one on each side, and those pork barrel staves would go through the ice, an' you would pull the boat.
