'Ice floe' definitions:

Definition of 'ice floe'

From: WordNet
noun
A flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea [syn: ice floe, floe]

Definition of 'Ice floe'

From: GCIDE
  • Ice \Ice\ ([imac]s), n. [OE. is, iis, AS. [imac]s; aksin to D. ijs, G. eis, OHG. [imac]s, Icel. [imac]ss, Sw. is, Dan. iis, and perh. to E. iron.]
  • 1. Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4[deg] C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] F. or 0[deg] Cent., and ice melts at the same temperature. Ice owes its cooling properties to the large amount of heat required to melt it. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Concreted sugar. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice. [1913 Webster]
  • Anchor ice, ice which sometimes forms about stones and other objects at the bottom of running or other water, and is thus attached or anchored to the ground.
  • Bay ice, ice formed in bays, fiords, etc., often in extensive fields which drift out to sea.
  • Ground ice, anchor ice.
  • Ice age (Geol.), the glacial epoch or period. See under Glacial.
  • Ice anchor (Naut.), a grapnel for mooring a vessel to a field of ice. --Kane.
  • Ice blink [Dan. iisblink], a streak of whiteness of the horizon, caused by the reflection of light from ice not yet in sight.
  • Ice boat. (a) A boat fitted with skates or runners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice.
  • Ice box or Ice chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator.
  • Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] --Shak.
  • Ice cream [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen.
  • Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice.
  • Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller.
  • Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice belt. --Kane.
  • Ice house, a close-covered pit or building for storing ice.
  • Ice machine (Physics), a machine for making ice artificially, as by the production of a low temperature through the sudden expansion of a gas or vapor, or the rapid evaporation of a volatile liquid.
  • Ice master. See Ice pilot (below).
  • Ice pack, an irregular mass of broken and drifting ice.
  • Ice paper, a transparent film of gelatin for copying or reproducing; papier glac['e].
  • Ice petrel (Zool.), a shearwater (Puffinus gelidus) of the Antarctic seas, abundant among floating ice.
  • Ice pick, a sharp instrument for breaking ice into small pieces.
  • Ice pilot, a pilot who has charge of a vessel where the course is obstructed by ice, as in polar seas; -- called also ice master.
  • Ice pitcher, a pitcher adapted for ice water.
  • Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice. [1913 Webster]