ballacater ballacarter; ballycadder; ballycater [alteration of barricado < F barricade] Nfld and E. Arctic DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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) bergy bit clumper