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pack ice

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pack ice (usually uncountable, plural pack ices)

  1. A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
    Synonyms: hummocky ice, ice pack
    • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:
      Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].
    • 1986, Stephen Pyne, The Ice, page 4:
      [] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; []

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