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Definition of Floes
1. floe [n] - See also: floe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floes
Literary usage of Floes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John by Elisha Kent Kane (1856)
"But, after they had had a couple of hours of unprofitable work, the breeze
freshened, and the floes opened enough to allow us to beat through them. ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"floes and sank. Happily, those on board had for some time before begun to fear
the worst, and transferred from the Hansa to a large floe a considerable ..."
3. Arctic Explorations in Search of Sir John Franklin by Elisha Kent Kane (1885)
"which required the saw and ice-chisels, fitted herself neatly between Boring the
two floes. Here she rested till toward morning, when the leads opened again ..."
4. The Ocean, Atmosphere, and Life: Being the Second Series of a Descriptive by Elisée Reclus (1874)
"Around the rocky coasts of Greenland, Labrador, and Spitzbergen, these ice-floes
often raise huge stones which they have torn from the bed of the sea. ..."
5. Arctic adventures by William Henry G. Kingston (1882)
"The blocks arid masses which stood out against the sky were cast into shades,
while the level floes sparkled like silver in the rising sun. ..."
6. Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea During 1875-6 in H.M. Ships 'Alert by George Strong Nares, Henry Wemyss Feilden (1878)
"... OF THE THAW—MUSK-OXEN' SHOT—INCREASE AND DECREASE OP POLAR floes—FORMATION OF
PEN-KNIFE ICE—DISRUPTION OF floes— ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"... the form of bergs or floes, and, by releasing at the same t im«1 its heavier
rock and gravel constituents, built up a breakwater which, as an island, ..."
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