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ice-shove

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs.

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Quotations

1829

Mr. Wright termed these wavy rocks, ice-shoves: he agreed that they had once been the channels of rapids, and were scooped out by the spring floods, laden with ice. . . .

2n. — Hist.

the annual thrusting forward and expansion of river ice during break-up, with special reference to the St. Lawrence River, where the phenomenon was accompanied with much flooding and considerable danger.

See: débâcle,ice flood,ice-run,shove ((n.)) (def. 2),shove ((v.))

Quotations

1865

He built a wall of bricks . . . to measure the destructive effects of the "ice-shove" in the spring.

1870

. . . it will give us a vivid idea of the dangers attendant on the ice-shove of the St. Lawrence. . . .

1955

As in a monstrous game of leap-frog, the huge blocks of ice are sliding over one another in the ice-shove on the Montreal water-front in 1873.