Definition of ice floe
: a usually large flat free mass of floating sea ice
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The Coast Guard and Monroe County Sheriff were notified of people flashing lights on an ice floe at about 8 p.m. A Coast Guard helicopter team found two groups of fishermen and hoisted them to safety.
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On August 1, 1947, the diesel submarine USS Boarfish, with Arctic Submarine Laboratory's founder Dr. Waldo Lyon onboard serving as an Ice Pilot, conducted the first under-ice transit of an ice floe in the Chukchi Sea.
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The big waters of Lake Erie will beckon once the remaining ice floes are gone.
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Even the familiar tales in this book are gripping—wooden ships in the pincers of an ice floe, flickering oil lamps, thin air.
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This was especially true in Montreal, that giant ice floe of an island whose winters are so brutal that Celsius often served, for me, as a kind of safeguard against overreaction.
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Five ice fishermen were rescued Friday night from an ice floe in Lake Erie's Brest Bay near Sterling State Park in Monroe, according the the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Winter has brought plenty of shivers to Texas this year, but there is at least one pearl to be found in the ice floe.
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What are some of your fondest memories? Holding a baby seal in my arms on an ice floe.
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First Known Use of ice floe
1819
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: a large, flat area of ice floating in the ocean
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