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