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barricade 
1 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: ballacater
- 1909 . . . I was obliged to keep on what we call the "ballicaters," or ice barricades.
- 1940 The crew just managed to keep her afloat . . . until she was beached on the barricade ice.
2a n. an overnight camping arrangement consisting of a trench or pit dug in the snow and lined with evergreen boughs which serve, along with a fire, as protection from the cold.
- 1792 (1911) [Half the party . . . began felling wood; the rest dug away the snow till they had made a pit many feet in circumference, in which the fire was to be made.]
- 1946 The barricade was comfortably lined with spruce boughs with a windbreak behind and a cosy fire in front.
2b n. See quote.
- 1909 . . . I was obliged to keep on what we call the "ballicaters," or ice barricades.