barricado n, often pl also barricaders, barry catters, batty catters, etc. [phonetics unavailable]. Cp OED ~ 4 naut 'rail ... extending, as a fence, across the foremost part of the quarter-deck' (1675-); DC (Nfld: 1775-). See BALLICATTER n, BARRICADE v.
   1 Ice formed in winter by the action of spray and waves along the shore-line of sea, ponds or rivers, making a barricade or band on the landward side.
   [1775] 1792 CARTWRIGHT ii, 89 The scene was greatly altered on our return, for the jam ice was not to be seen, the barricados were fallen off from the shore, most of the snow melted, all the harbours were open. 1792 ibid Gloss i, ix Barricados. That ice which is formed upon the shore above low-water mark. 1925 Dial Notes v, 325 Batty catters, barry catters—ice frozen to the shore and hummocked up. 1937 DEVINE 9 Barricaders. The frozen sea ice on the foreshore unmoved by the ebb and flow of the tide. T 141/63-65² The ponds in the centre was thawed out, but here was the batticatter right around ... the edge of the pond. T 194-65 When he went up, [the handle] was broke off. I suppose heavy batticatter, ice or something [did it].
   2 Accumulation of masses and slabs of ice forced up on shore by tides and waves, or grounded near the shore; 'rafted' ice.
   [1912 CABOT 122 Along the mainland was a line of 'barricados,' as often happens, boulders shoved up by the ice. They call them belly-carders here, in good faith.] T 84/5-64 I give un a little dart out over the battycatter. T 141/64-65² He got in and he hauled ashore—a ice claw on the heaving line, and he got a hold to the land in there somewhere, in the battycatter. Q 67-88 Battycatter: ice piled up on the beach. 1979 TIZZARD 96 This boat was painted green with yellow gunwales, and when there was enough water around the barricaders the boat was put afloat.
   3 Ice-pan.
   1925 Dial Notes v, 333 [A growler is a] small berg or large 'batty catter' floating. 1979 TIZZARD 240 It was good to get out in punt in the spring of the year and to row among the barricaders or ballycaters.

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