Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A blockade of ice in a river.
  • noun A narrow, steep-sided gorge in whose bottom, amid large fallen rocks, ice forms in the winter and endures until late in the summer or longer. Ice-gorges occur in a number of localities in New England and New York.

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Examples

  • But the boat was perilously near the ice-gorge, which growled and wrestled and over-topped it a bare dozen feet away.

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  • Winter as well as summer the work went on; and the task of cutting out a vessel wrecked in an ice-gorge, or of raising one from beneath the ice, must have been as trying as walking the river bottom in search of a wreck.

    James B. Eads Louis How 1910

  • But the boat was perilously near the ice-gorge, which growled and wrestled and over-topped it a bare dozen feet away.

    A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896

  • All at once his face brightened, and he slapped his round, tight thigh with a noise like the rending of an ice-gorge.

    In the Valley Harold Frederic 1877

  • A few scenes, evidently painted on the spot and in dire distress; a drop-curtain depicting an utterly impracticable roseate ice-gorge in the ideal Alaska, and four footlights, constituted the sum total of the properties.

    Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

  • Up to this time it had not given way, and had become the cause of an ice-gorge that every moment grew more threatening.

    Nature's Serial Story Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Ermigit seemed to have guessed rightly, for after clambering up the ice-gorge referred to until he gained a high ledge or plateau, he began regularly to stalk the birds with the sly patience of a cat.

    Red Rooney The Last of the Crew 1859

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