ice-jack
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ice-jack (third-person singular simple present ice-jacks, present participle ice-jacking, simple past and past participle ice-jacked)
- (of water) To freeze underneath an element or between two elements and jacking up the overlaying element, thereby separating it from its underlayment
- The support pylon for the ski gondola collapsed because of ice-jacking.