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bordage
[< Cdn F < F bord river bank + -age]
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n.
See 1807 quote.
See: ice-shelf(def. 2)
Quotations
1807
The ice on the rivers in Canada acquires a thickness of two feet and upwards and is capable of supporting any degree of weight. That on the borders of the St. Lawrence, called the bordage, sometimes exceeds six feet.
1849
We pushed it over the bordage, and launched it in the current. . . .
1898
It was to the packing of these leagues of bordage ice . . . that the winter rise of the water was attributed.