DCHP-3

ice-jam

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a pile-up of ice-cakes in a river or other narrow watercourse.

See: ice-cake,jam ((n.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1846
I have mentioned that, in the spring of 1845, an ice-jam, as it is called here, occurred, which suddenly raised the level of the Niagara thirty and forty feet above its ordinary floods. . . .
1898
Captain Mariner says the boat was landed high and dry by the pressure of the ice jam, but that he relaunched her without any damage whatever.
1962
Near Matty Island, the ice jam reached from shore to shore. . . .