[? A Canadian use of F. fraisil, coal-dust, cinders.] In Canada and U.S. Ice formed at the bottom of a stream, anchor-ice. Also attrib.
1888. Montreal Gaz., 17 March (Cent. Dict.). It has been suggested that it may be due to the accumulation of frazil or anchor-ice.
1893. Boston (Mass.) Youth’s Companion, 9 Feb., 71/4. The greater the surface of the swift open water, the greater the quantity of frazil made in a minute, hour, or day. Every open rapid is, in ‘zero weather,’ a frazil-factory.
