ice pancake

[ ahys pan-keyk ]

1. an individual piece of pancake ice:

   a massive cluster of ice pancakes floating along Lake Michigan’s south shore.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice pancake¹

First recorded in 1900–05; pancake ice ( def )

Example Sentences

There’s brash ice, pancake ice, bullet ice, green ice, frazil, nilas, breccia, shuga, slush ice, rotten ice, pressure ice, grease ice, ice dust, shorefast ice, ice flowers, ice haycocks, ice saddles, floes, calf bergs, growlers, and sastrugi, to name just a few.

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