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Freeze-up

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The blocking of pipes due to freezing.
  2. 2
    A period of extremely cold, freezing weather.

    "The heaters, the S.R. now says, will "help tremendously" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...]."

  3. 3
    The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over.

Etymology

Deverbal from freeze up.

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