pack ice

English

Noun

pack ice (usually uncountable, plural pack ices)

1. A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.
   • 1940 May, “Overseas Railways: Icebound Denmark”, in Railway Magazine, page 302:

     Pack ice, at times mounting to a height of 35 ft., snow, fog, and floating mines all played their part in the disorganisation of railway services, and most of the train ferry services were completely suspended for a month or more; [...].

   • 1986, Stephen Pyne, The Ice, page 4:

     […] the sea ices: pack ices, ice floes, ice rinds, ice hummocks ...; the coastal ices, fast ice, shore ices, glacial-ice, tongues, ice piedmonts; […]

Synonyms

• ice pack
• hummocky ice

Translations

large consolidated mass of floating sea ice

• Bulgarian: паков лед (pakov led)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 浮冰 (zh) (fúbīng)

• Danish: pakis (da) c
• Dutch: pakijs (nl) n
• Finnish: ahtojää (fi)
• French: banquise (fr)
• German: Packeis (de) n
• Hungarian: jégtorlasz (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pakkis (no) m

  Nynorsk: pakkis m

• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: па́ковый лёд m (pákovyj ljod), пак (ru) m (pak)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: packis (sv) c

Anagrams

• ice pack, icepack