pancake ice
noun
newly formed ice in flat pieces too small and thin to obstruct navigation.
Origin of pancake ice
First recorded in 1810–20
Words nearby pancake ice
panathenaic,
panatrophy,
panay,
pancake,
pancake day,
pancake ice,
pancake kidney,
pancarditis,
pancetta,
pancha sila,
panchaia
Example sentences from the Web for pancake ice
One morning early in September, however, he found to his sorrow that pancake-ice was forming on the sea.
Fast in the Ice |R.M. BallantyneSo I took the ship north, and at daylight on Friday we got clear of the pancake-ice.
South! |Sir Ernest Shackleton
British Dictionary definitions for pancake ice
pancake ice
noun
thin slabs of newly formed ice in polar seas