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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a winter route across a river, lake, etc.
Quotations
1845
Experienced "ice-road" makers are then selected to cut and prepare a carriage and foot-way across the river, to define which large branches and stems of the fir-tree are placed at legitimate distances to indicate the path a well-conditioned Canadian should travel. . . .
1884
The ice-roads [across the St. Lawrence] are always marked-out by spruce-trees stuck in the snow.
1955
The "shove" menaced anyone still trying to cross the St. Lawrence on the ice-roads, and year by year there would be rescues or casualties.
2n.
a route following the course of a frozen river. See also river road and winter road (def. 3).
Quotations
1963
The forest is criss-crossed by good solid ice roads all winter, but a thaw can come quite suddenly in March.