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ice-pan 
1 n. a fairly substantial slab of ice broken off from a large expanse of ice; an ice floe.
See also: ice-cake ice-raft pan ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1918 (n.d.) 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 (1951) 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.
2 n. an extensive expanse of ice.
- 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.
- 1918 (n.d.) 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.