heavy

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

of drift-ice, thick and close-packed, making it difficult for a ship to make headway.

Quotations

1850

Heavy and light are terms attached to ice, distinguishable of its thickness.

1958

She became jammed in heavy ice off Grey Islands, northern Newfoundland, and her operations were greatly hampered.