DCHP-3

river road

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a route following the course of a frozen river.

See: ice-road(def. 2)

Quotations

1829
When the snow falls deep, before the ice has had time to freeze to any considerable thickness, the river roads remain dangerous all the season; because after they have got their covering of snow, say three feet deep, the ice below cannot continue to thicken by the frost.
1955
Some experienced travellers on the river-roads even carried "choke-ropes."