"Steve Haywood" <[email protected]> wrote: >I was on the front 'steering' with a barge pole, a technique with which some >of you might be familiar. It involves standing precariously on the bow and >creating a path by puncturing the ice six or seven inches in front of the >bow.
Is this, perhaps, an opportunity to exercise a rarely-used waterways word? I think this can be described as "podging". It is possible, though, that the meaning of that word is limited to moving ice out of locks, but insisting on that feels a bit spoil-sport.. Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966
