DCHP-1 Online
ballacater ballacarter; ballycadder; ballycater [alteration of barricado < F barricade] Nfld and E. Arctic 
n. an ice mass formed by pans drifting to shore and being subjected to showers of freezing spray, eventually becoming barricades between the land and the water.
See also: ballicater barricade (def. 1) barricader barricado (def. 1) ice barricade ice-foot (def. 2) ice-wall shore-ice (def. 3)
- 1906 The rocks were covered with ice, and the shore was bespread with large pans of ice, high and dry--in local phraseology, "balacadas."
- 1918 I remember once in Nain the slob ice had already made ballicaters. . . .
- 1952 (1953) We tore down hills, bolted and swerved round ballacaters.
- 1963 BALLYCATER, n. Ice formed by spray on the shore.
- 1906 The rocks were covered with ice, and the shore was bespread with large pans of ice, high and dry--in local phraseology, "balacadas."