ice-pack†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an expanse of ice made up of many small pans or floes tightly packed together.

Quotations

1855

A single gale might convert the precarious platform, over which we were travelling, into a tumultuous ice-pack.

1912

We lay in the big ice pack off Cape Breton, getting a load of seal pelts.

1962

The ship was still fast in the grip of the ice pack and she stayed there till the beginning of August. . . .