ice jam

ice jam
1. an obstruction of broken river ice in a narrow part of a channel.
2. a mass of lake or sea ice broken and piled up against the shore by wind pressure.
[1840-50]

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ice jam,
1. a) a mass of broken ice obstructing a river: »

A cofferdam collapsed under the weight of an ice jam (Wall Street Journal).

b) a mass of broken ice piled onto the shore of a lake by the wind.
2. Figurative. anything that feels like a mass of ice: »

The ice jam within him breaks, and he begins to uncontrollably mourn (New Yorker).


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