floe

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Noun floe has 1 sense

ice floe, floe - a flat mass of ice (smaller than an ice field) floating at sea
--₁ is a kind of ice mass

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Floe

Noun:

a mass of floating ice detached from a larger glacier or iceberg

Example sentence:

The explorers carefully maneuvered their boat around the towering floe of ice.

Noun:

a large, flat mass of floating ice

Example sentence:

The seals gathered on the floe, basking in the sun.

Verb:

to drift or float as a mass of ice

Example sentence:

The icebergs floe by, carried by the chilly current.