Brewer's: Make the Ice

(To). To near the whale-fishing ground. To make for the ice is to steer in that direction.

“About the end of April we neared the fishing ground, or, to be more technical, `made the ice.” C. Thomson: Autobiography, p. 128.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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