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drift ice
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Drift ice is any sea ice other than fast ice , the latter being attached ("fastened") to the shoreline or other fixed objects (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.). Drift ice is carried along by winds and sea currents , hence its name. When drift ice is driven ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. masses of ice floating in the open sea
Usage examples of drift ice.
I had to know, I had to know, and if I had to find out by covering whatever miles lay between me and Drift Ice Station Zebra on my hands and knees, then I would do just that.
One side of the plane was already thickly sheeted in drift ice, and all the windows were completely blanked off, made opaque, by rime frost.
Their catchers, operating in a 200-mile radius, spoke of heavy drift ice with bergs much more frequent and much bigger than usual.
Alpha was a barren oval chunk of floating drift ice less than a mile long, a hundred or so miles from the North Pole.