Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. A blockade of ice in a
river. - n. A narrow, steep-sided gorge in whose bottom, amid
large fallen rocks, ice forms in the winter and endures until
late in the summer or longer. Ice-gorges occur in a number of
localities in New England and New York. “But the boat was
perilously near the ice-gorge, which growled and wrestled and
over-topped it a bare dozen feet away.” “Winter as well as
summer the work went on; and the task of cutting out a vessel
wrecked in an ice-gorge, or of raising one from beneath the ice,
must have been as trying as walking the river bottom in search
of a wreck.” “All at once his face brightened, and he slapped
his round, tight thigh with a noise like the rending of an ice-
gorge.” “A few scenes, evidently painted on the spot and in dire
distress; a drop-curtain depicting an utterly impracticable
roseate ice-gorge in the ideal Alaska, and four footlights,
constituted the sum total of the properties.” “Up to this time
it had not given way, and had beco