DCHP-1 Online

caribou crossing (-place)

• a shallow stretch in a river or lake where caribou habitually cross, often usable by man as a ford.

  See also: deer crossing  

  • 1911  The place we had selected for camp proved to be a Caribou crossing.
  • 1923  (1924)  From the lay of this land there ought to be a caribou-crossing somewhere in the neighborhood. . . .
  • 1965  Leading to the caribou crossing-places on lakes and rivers . . . are seen drift fences. . . .