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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a fairly substantial slab of ice broken off from a large expanse of ice; an ice floe.
Quotations
1918
Jumping from the side of the ship as she goes along, scurrying and leaping from ice-pan to ice-pan, and then having killed, "sculped," and "pelted" the seal, the exciting return to the vessel.
1939
An elderly herring-gull sat on an ice-pan, head under its wing asleep.
1963
Turquoise ice pans (last year's ice) cluttered the water just off shore.
2n.
an extensive expanse of ice.
Quotations
1953
. . . we were able to make the first part of the journey by boat . . . between the rocky shores and the ice pan which still covered most of the bay.