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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an engineering technique for slowing down the flow of a river during break-up, involving the dredging of holes into the river bottom so that the ice will build up, forming a barrier.
See: ice anchorage
Quotations
1963
The ice trap first was dug several years ago. . . .