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ice jam
noun
- an obstruction of broken river ice in a narrow part of a channel.
- a mass of lake or sea ice broken and piled up against the shore by wind pressure.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ice jam1
First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences
Toward the end of the day they were stopped by a small ice-jam which moved forward slowly only to stop them again.
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Just beyond this, a higher and stronger palisade protected the riverbank from the winter ice jam.
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Midsummer's Day and the two following days we were stuck in a heavy ice-jam one hundred miles south of St. Anthony.
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The great ice jam had parted from Rolfe's Island and was swinging out into the open, pushing everything before it.
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She didn't catch the wind o' that, lad, till we were navigating our raft downstream agen the ice-jam.
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