Word.ws English Dictionary

ice-jack

ice-jack verb: to freeze underneath an element or between two elements and jacking up the overlaying element, thereby separating it from its underlayment.

Verb

ice-jack (third-person singular simple present ice-jacks, present participle ice-jacking, simple past and past participle ice-jacked)

  1. 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.

Forms of ice-jack

third-person singular presentice-jacks
present participleice-jacking
past participleice-jacked
pastice-jacked
alternative formicejack
alternative formice jack

Origin of ice-jack

From ice + jack.

Questions about ice-jack

What does ice-jack mean?
Ice-jack means to freeze underneath an element or between two elements and jacking up the overlaying element, thereby separating it from its underlayment.
What part of speech is ice-jack?
Ice-jack is a verb.
What is the past tense of ice-jack?
The past tense of ice-jack is ice-jacked.

Words near ice-jack in the dictionary

  1. ice-foots
  2. ice-free
  3. ice-hearted
  4. ice-house
  5. ice-houses
  6. ice-jack
  7. ice-marginal
  8. ice-minus
  9. ice-out
  10. ice-outs
  11. ice-pail

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ice-jack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ice-jack.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ice-jack. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.