ice floe
noun
: a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Over a laborious 75 minutes, Conrad travels to Alaska, courts the female operative assigned to him, drunkenly passes out on an ice floe, is captured by Russian agents, and discovers the secret of the flying saucer. 
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 On October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole. Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022 The edge of an ice floe was illuminated by bow lights piercing the morning darkness of the Bering Sea. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 The dog, who first responders estimate was maybe 80-pounds, somehow got away from her new owners who live on the 200 block of Biddle, just off the Detroit River and ended up on an ice floe. Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2022 The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Jan. 25 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 To test submarine systems and research initiatives in the region, the Navy established a temporary ice camp, known as Ice Camp Queenfish, on top of an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. Jon Schlosberg, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2022 By April 11, 1916, as their ice floe broke apart, Shackleton and the Endurance crew took to their lifeboats, spending several days grimly huddled together, battling seasickness, drenched by freezing seawater and ravaged by thirst. Barry Neild, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022 See More
David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022 On October 4, 2019, the Polarstern, a German icebreaker the length of a football field, sidled up to a thick ice floe above the Arctic Circle and turned off its engines. Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 May 2022 The large ice floe comprising the field was as close as possible to the geographic North Pole. Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2022 The edge of an ice floe was illuminated by bow lights piercing the morning darkness of the Bering Sea. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 The dog, who first responders estimate was maybe 80-pounds, somehow got away from her new owners who live on the 200 block of Biddle, just off the Detroit River and ended up on an ice floe. Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2022 The fishing boat Pinnacle makes its way through an ice floe on Jan. 25 in the Bering Sea southwest of St. Matthew Island. Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2022 To test submarine systems and research initiatives in the region, the Navy established a temporary ice camp, known as Ice Camp Queenfish, on top of an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean. Jon Schlosberg, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2022 By April 11, 1916, as their ice floe broke apart, Shackleton and the Endurance crew took to their lifeboats, spending several days grimly huddled together, battling seasickness, drenched by freezing seawater and ravaged by thirst. Barry Neild, CNN, 12 Mar. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined above