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ice-wall Maritimes 
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
- 1934 Sometimes the ice-walls were thirty feet in height, sometimes as high as sixty feet. Sometimes, when the winter was a mild one, the ice-walls would be low enough to step over.
- 1953 It's low--most of it's barely above the tide on the springs--so there's no ice wall to bother us if we want to get ashore there.
- 1934 Sometimes the ice-walls were thirty feet in height, sometimes as high as sixty feet. Sometimes, when the winter was a mild one, the ice-walls would be low enough to step over.