freeze-up

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the freezing up of bodies of water and the topsoil of land in the late fall or early winter; also, the period during which this freezing takes place.

Quotations

1910

The freeze-up came on when we were at the mouth of Henderson Creek. . . .

1933

They had never seen a white woman in the country at freeze-up time. . . .

1954

". . . we must set our time according to my experience and observation of freeze-ups and snow fall. . . ."

1966

They go on foot, by canoe before the freeze up, and by other crude means. . . .