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ice floe
ice floe
ice floe
- A large, flat expanse of floating ice smaller than a marine ice field.
Word History and Origins
Origin of ice floe1
Example Sentences
The others, Thomas Myers and Luke Adebayo, wind up, respectively, stranded on an ice floe and hunkered down beside a snowmobile.
Even better, meteorites tend to get trapped in moving ice floes which accumulate at the base of mountain ranges, where they often resurface.
They have gone out on an ice floe with no obvious way back to shore.
Not that Western civilization has never embraced the mythical Inuit practice of leaving the old out on an ice floe.
The ice-floe was so deep down in the water that the current that ran underneath drew it along.
So both children turned their effort to shoving off the ice-floe and soon succeeded in moving it beyond the reach of the poles.
That was entirely out of his plans, so he used his pole to push himself over as near to the large ice-floe as possible.
In the morning, the ice-floe burst across immediately beneath the ship.
We ran into an ice floe last night and the Ark slipped upon the ledge of the iceberg and grounded.
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