DCHP-3

barricade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an ice mass formed by pans drifting to shore and being subjected to showers of freezing spray, eventually becoming barricades between the land and the water.

Quotations

1909
. . . I was obliged to keep on what we call the "ballicaters," or ice barricades.
1940
The crew just managed to keep her afloat . . . until she was beached on the barricade ice.
2an.

an overnight camping arrangement consisting of a trench or pit dug in the snow and lined with evergreen boughs which serve, along with a fire, as protection from the cold.

Quotations

1792
[Half the party . . . began felling wood; the rest dug away the snow till they had made a pit many feet in circumference, in which the fire was to be made.]
1946
The barricade was comfortably lined with spruce boughs with a windbreak behind and a cosy fire in front.
2bn.

See quote.

Quotations

1941
Barricade--An open camping place formed of small trees and brush.