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▪ I. floe|fləʊ|
[perh. a. Norse flo layer, level piece (Ivar Aasen):—ON. fló fem. The usual Da. word for (ice-)floe is flage = flaw n.1]
1. A sheet of floating ice, of greater or less extent; a detached portion of a field of ice. Also ice-floe.
1817Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 531 Pieces of very large dimensions, but smaller than fields, are called floes. 1823― North. Whale Fishery 71 We came to the edge of a heavy floe, 8 or 10 miles in diameter. 1857E. Parry Mem. Sir W. E. Parry 76 One of the whalers..was crushed between two moving floes. 1878Markham Gt. Frozen Sea i. 2 They were destined to grapple and fight with the heavy and unyielding ice floes of the Polar Ocean.
transf.1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar ii. xiii, The moon might fly behind the cloud floes.
2. attrib. and Comb., as floe-edge; floeberg, a berg composed of floe-ice; floe-flat, a seal = floe rat; floe-ice (see quot. 1882); floe-rat, a sealer's name for the small ringed seal (Phoca hispida).
1878E. L. Moss Shores Polar Sea Descr. Plate xii, The great stratified masses of salt ice..are..fragments broken from the edges of the perennial floes. We called them *floe-bergs in order to distinguish them from, and express their kinship to, icebergs.
1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. vii. 72 We perceived that they were at some distance from the *floe-edge.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4) 173 Harbour Ranger or *Floe Flat.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. vii. (1856) 52 A vast plain of undulating ice..This was the *floe ice.
1880Standard 20 May 3 Of the ‘*floe-rat’ the Greenlanders kill every year about fifty-one thousand.
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