bordage

Updated: June 12, 2025

For the two next days the river was still high, until on the 4th April the waters seemed suddenly to give way, and by the following day the river was flowing clear and smooth as a millpond, nothing of winter remaining except the masses of bordage ice which were strewn along the shores of the stream.

Samuel Smiles - Lives of the Engineers: The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson