Meanings
adverbiceward (not comparable)
- not comparableTowards 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyH-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁eyH-so-
- Proto-Germanic*īsą
- Proto-West Germanic*īs
- Old Englishīs
- Middle Englishis
- Englishice
- Proto-Indo-European*wert-
- Proto-Germanic*wardaz
- Englishiceward
Cite this entry
APA
iceward. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iceward
MLA
“iceward.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iceward. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “iceward,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/iceward.
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