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ice-floe|ˈaɪsfləʊ|
[See floe.]
A large sheet of floating ice: sometimes several miles in extent (cf. quot. 1835).
1819Edin. Rev. XXXI. 341 Jammed in between two ice⁓floes. [1835Leslie Polar Seas i. 43 The whale-fishers enumerate several varieties of the salt-water ice. A very wide expanse of it they call a field, and one of smaller dimensions a floe.] 1882H. Lansdell Through Siberia I. 198 A dense mass of ice-floes and pack-ice rushed irresistibly up the Kureika. |