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Floe   /floʊ/   Listen
Floe

noun
1.
A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea.  Synonym: ice floe.






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"Floe" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the bay from Heart's Delight of an ominously dull afternoon—this on a straight-away course over the ice which still clung to the coast rocks—we were caught in a change of wind and swept to sea with the floe: a rising wind, blowing with unseasonable snow from the northwest, which was presently black as night. Far off shore, the pack was broken in pieces by the sea, scattered broadcast by the gale; so that by the time of deep night—while the snow still whipped ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan



Words linked to "Floe" :   ice mass, ice floe



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