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
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But the boat was perilously near the ice-gorge, which growled and wrestled and over-topped it a bare dozen feet away.
CHAPTER 24 2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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