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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
an experienced seaman who cons a ship through sea ice.
See: ice-master
Quotations
1934
Alex Seymour, the ice pilot, has his Eskimo wife on board, also his half-caste daughter, a very pretty girl who had been educated at a Ladies' College in San Francisco. . . .
1937
. . . with Captain John Ford . . . as ice pilot and supercargo.