What is "floe"

Usage examples of "floe".

He was returning from the northern edge of the floe when the handset that Fleischer had issued him bleeped in his pocket.

The puir beast would drift south on some floe, and it was sair hurt, for Sandy said it had a hole in its throat ye could put your nieve in.

The two friends slept bed to bed under an oleograph showing the Crane Gate, the observatory, and the Long Bridge in winter with ice floes.

The floes were small and broken - the thawing fringe broken from the pack ice farther south and flung north-eastward by the storm.

He scanned the landscape absentmindedly for his daughter, his thoughts already drifting out onto the high seas, to the north, with their drifting floes and towering bergs and secret islands wreathed in mist.

For a while the People still crossed the river between the towns on ice, hopping nimbly from one floe to another, but eventually the water was clear enough of ice that the fragile little hide-covered bullboats could be used without danger of being crushed in ice jams.

The people in the projection room instinctively shifted their eyes from the upper monitor, in which an eccentric laser diamond trembled just above the sun, to the main screen, where a constant, unpulsed beam of power stripped fractured layers, slabs, snow-white floes from the circle of ice.

As the floe migrated through the Arctic Sea, like a ghost ship adrift and lost, the polar spies used advanced acoustical equipment to detect hostile subs, while special antennas and receivers eavesdropped on the other side.

A violent storm took the Gauss by surprise, collected a mass of icebergs around her, and filled up the intervening space with floes, so that there could be no question of making any way.

In the course of January 6 a change took place, the floes became narrower and the leads broader.

Next morning we returned, and after the lapse of a few hours the floes within the bay began to move.

Outside the pack-ice proper lie long streams of floes and loose scattered lumps, which become more frequent as one nears the pack.

The floes lay close together, and we could see how one floe fitted into the other.

From here to the Bay of Whales we saw a few scattered streams of floes and some icebergs.

The Japanese were occupied most of the night in going round among the floes and picking up men, dogs, cases, and so on, as they had put a good deal on to the ice in the course of the day.