ice floe
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See also: icefloe
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Noun
- Any type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
- An ice dam (ice jam), a blockage of ice in a river starting with an ice floe in the river.
- An ice stream (ice flow), a type of fast moving glacier
- A flat mass of floating ice, smaller than an ice field.
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floe — see floe
