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ice-pack † 
n. an expanse of ice made up of many small pans or floes tightly packed together.
See also: pack ice pack ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1855 (1892) 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. . . .
- 1855 (1892) A single gale might convert the precarious platform, over which we were travelling, into a tumultuous ice-pack.