noun
definition
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
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Examples of floes in a Sentence
To measure relative drift velocities of small and large floes due to wind and wave action.
A baby seal being clubbed to death on the Canadian ice floes.
Showing a small sailing vessel among small ice floes, with land in the distance.
These massive 20 horsepower engines, acquired from London Railways were specially adapted to use propellers in moving the ships through broken ice floes.
Weddell seals are seen quite frequently enjoying a snooze on the shores or on ice floes.
The party therefore camped on the drifting floe, keeping up scientific observations and maintaining their health and spirits though in continual danger from the floes ridging up or cracking asunder.