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1726 Daily Jrnl. 7 Feb. Just now our Magistrates received an Express, with Advice, that the Ice-Dams near Hartingsveld and Gornichem are broke loose.

1850 Yale Lit. Mag. June 261 The angry flood, which, as the ice dam gave way, swept off every thing movable in its path, leaving nought but the naked, silent plain.

1935 W. J. Miller Introd. Physical Geol. (ed. 3) xiv. 396 Existing ice-dam lakes are not common, and few, if any of them, are large. During the Ice Age, however, thousands of them formed and lasted only as long as the ice dams existed.

1965 G. Daniels How to be Home Electrician xi. 113 One of the most money-saving uses of electric heating tape is the prevention of ice-dams on the roof.

2003 S. Mithen After Ice xxvi. 242 Soon after that date an ice dam at its eastern edge was breached and..billions of litres of water began to flow east, into the St Lawrence River.