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1n.
a bridge across a river, bay, etc., formed by the natural freezing of the water and used as a means of crossing from one shore to the other.
See: ice-bridge(def. 1a)
Quotations
1769
Before I saw the breaking up of the vast body of ice, which forms what is here called the bridge, from Quebec to Point Levi, I imagined there could he nothing in it worth attention. . . .
1849
At Kingston . . . the "Bridge of Ice," over the lower part of Lake Ontario, carries him to the French Creek, or Sackett's Harbour. . .
2n. — Nfld
a formation of thick ice over a river, bay, etc., the surroundings being rotten, ice or water.
See: rotten
Quotations
1771
We landed . . . and walked home; for the river was frozen over in bridges. . . .
1916
Archie took one step--and dropped, crashing, with a section of the bridge, which momentarily floated his weight.
1933
By bending close to the ice we could follow their track. The bridge wound. Sometimes we felt that we were surrounded by the black sliding water.
3n.
See corduroy bridge.