noun, ice pan | ‘ice pan’: a slab of floating ice (COD)
“Oh god, some of that ice was three foot thick when I was a young lad. I saw it. And the cakes, took a good man to handle those cakes.”
“My mother and dad had went someplace. I don’t know where they went. We came home from school and the ice was all broke up in cakes along the shore. We were out jumping ice cakes. They weren’t very happy about that.”
“Usually the ice around the ice hole could be a foot deep… So Daddy took the one rope, and I took the other to hold the horse’s head up and to get him out… But anyway he had the ropes on him, but the cake of ice that I was on broke off, and I went into the ice hole.”
Words of Wolfe Island 