floen.
/fləʊ/, U.S. /floʊ/ A sheet of floating ice, of greater or less extent; a detached portion of a field of ice. Cf. ice floe n.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > floe
flake1555
shoal1648
floe1817
ice floe1819
floe-ice1853
1817 W. Scoresby in Ann. Reg., Chron. 531 Pieces of very large dimensions, but smaller than fields, are called floes.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 71 We came to the edge of a heavy floe, 8 or 10 miles in diameter.
1857 E. Parry Mem. Sir W. E. Parry 76 One of the whalers..was crushed between two moving floes.
1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea i. 2 They were destined to grapple and fight with the heavy and unyielding ice floes of the Polar Ocean.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
floe-edge n.
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1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. vii. 72 We perceived that they were at some distance from the floe-edge.
C2.
floeberg n. a berg composed of floe-ice.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > iceberg > [noun] > made of floe-ice
floeberg1878
1878 E. 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.
floe-flat n. a seal = floe-rat n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > seal
sealc893
sea-seala1398
seal-fishc1420
sea-veal1576
phoca1594
sea tun1601
sea-calf1616
rubb1694
swile1802
tang-fish1809
sea-pig1826
earless seal1833
phocacean1842
phocid1871
floe-flat1883
phocine1890
1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 173 Harbour Ranger or Floe Flat.
floe-ice n. (see quot. 1853).
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > floe
flake1555
shoal1648
floe1817
ice floe1819
floe-ice1853
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. vii. 52 A vast plain of undulating ice... This was the floe ice.
floe-rat n. a sealer's name for the small ringed seal ( Phoca hispida).
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca hispida (ringed seal)
ringed seal1850
floe-rat1880
marble seal1896
1880 Standard 20 May 3 Of the ‘floe-rat’ the Greenlanders kill every year about fifty-one thousand.
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