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Definition of Drift ice
1. Noun. Masses of ice floating in the open sea.
Definition of Drift ice
1. Noun. One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drift Ice
Literary usage of Drift ice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"Land-ice consists of drift- ice attached to the shore ; or drift- ice, which, by
being covered with mud or gravel, appears to have recently been in contact ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1900)
"We met with the first drift-ice on November 30, the temperature of the water ...
Whenever icebergs occurred, as a rule drift-ice, often in wide irregular ..."
3. Central Asia and Tibet by Sven Anders Hedin (1903)
"The river wore a strange and unfamiliar aspect ; its surface being so thickly
strewn with white drift-ice, that it would have been easy to imagine it had ..."
4. Central Asia and Tibet: Towards the Holy City of Lassa by Sven Hedin (1903)
"The river wore a strange and unfamiliar aspect ; its surface being so thickly
strewn with white drift-ice, that it would have been easy to imagine it had ..."
5. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"Besides, the large quantity of drift- ice, which drifts southward with great
rapidity along the east coast of Greenland all the way down to Cape Farewell ..."
6. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"Connection of this Phenomenon with drift Ice.—Pilot with English Newspapers.—Return
to Liverpool. May 21, 1846 IN the construction and management of ..."
7. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton (1920)
"Generally drift-ice is within reach of the swell, and is a stage in the breaking
down of pack-ice, the size of the floes being much smaller than in the ..."
8. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
""o. ooc SECTION OF THE CPI'EH PART or THE SNOW OX A DRIFT-ICE FIELD IN 80' KL
One-half the natural size. 1 I use this name because the ash-rain of March ..."
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