Definition of Ice floe

1. Noun. A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.

Exact synonyms: Floe
Generic synonyms: Ice Mass

Definition of Ice floe

1. Noun. A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Floe

ice crystal
ice cube
ice cube tray
ice cube trays
ice cubes
ice dams
ice dancing
ice diving
ice dwarf
ice dwarfs
ice field
ice fields
ice fish
ice fishing
ice floe (current term)
ice floes
ice fog
ice foot
ice fractal
ice giant
ice giants
ice hockey
ice hockey player
ice hockey players
ice hockey rink
ice kachang
ice lollies
ice lolly
ice luge

Literary usage of Ice floe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"The Advance was free, and rested once more upon an even keel, with clear water all about her That day they procured fresh water from an ice-floe to which ..."

2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"We could do nothing better than pitch our tent on the ice-floe and creep into our sleeping bags to take a sleep, which, after twenty hours' constant hard ..."

3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1897)
"We now realized that we were prisoners on an ice-floe, drifting out to sea. When we had been out for nearly a day. we thought it best to try to sleep. ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"Nansen's idea that the plan can be carried out in two years Is perhaps the weakest point in the entire scheme. Though the ice floe reached ..."

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