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barricader
Nfld Dial.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
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.
See: ballacater
Quotations
1937
Barricaders--The frozen sea ice on the fore shore unmoved by the ebb and flow of the tide. Also spoken Ballacarters.