DCHP-3

snowbridge

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a stretch of packed snow forming a bridge over a river, crevasse, etc.

Quotations

1890
Every observant passenger on the Canadian Pacific Railroad has noticed the snow bridge on the Illecillewaet, but there are records of ice bridges also.
1935
Three of the dogs had passed over a frail snowbridge across a narrow but bottomless canyon.