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Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH- Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyH-so-der. Proto-Germanic *īsą Proto-West Germanic *īs Old English īs Middle English is English ice Proto-Indo-European *wert-der. Proto-Germanic *wardaz Old English -weard English -ward English iceward From ice + -ward.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Towards the ice
Billy flashing the blade of the stick back down iceward (slap), and rocketing the hard black puck against the plain pine boards staked up against the wall of Mr. H.'s house (ka-BOOM!).
1988 January 15, David Allen Jones, “The Boys of Winter”, in Chicago Reader: