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ice raft
nounDefinition of ice raft
(Entry 1 of 2)
: ice floe
ice-raft
transitive verbDefinition of ice-raft (Entry 2 of 2)
: to transport on or in an iceberg or other floating ice
a granitic boulder … might have reached its present location by ice-rafting — Journal of Geology ice-rafted sediment
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