DCHP-1 Online

heavy

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

  See also: drift-ice  

  • 1850  (1851)  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.