floes

As far as the eye could reach, the whole ocean was covered with broken sheets of ice, -- some several miles in extent, others of smaller size, which the seamen called floes, -- huge icebergs towering up among them.

Archibald Hughson An Arctic Story William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

We still sail northward, among sheets of ice, whose boundaries are not beyond our vision from the masthead -- these are "floes;" between them we find easy way, it is fair "sailing ice."

Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage Richard Hakluyt 1584

"floes" of sufficient size and specific weight to allow removal by sedimentation or filtration.

8. Water treatment 1992

"As we neared this novel scene, I observed that it consisted mostly of flat masses of ice, of various sizes (called by the sealers 'floes'); some were miles in extent, and others only a few feet.

Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner 1856

When I think of eco-trips, I envision polar bears hitching rides on melting ice floes in the Arctic.

Mickey Goodman: 7 Ways to Have Fun and Go Green in Denver Mickey Goodman 2011

When I think of eco-trips, I envision polar bears hitching rides on melting ice floes in the Arctic.

Mickey Goodman: 7 Ways to Have Fun and Go Green in Denver Mickey Goodman 2011

Or that in winter he and his friends rode Hudson River ice floes from 178th Street to 25th?

An American Apollo Laura Jacobs 2011

Mr. Meinig plans to use a Liquid Robotics wave glider to study ice floes in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska later this year.

Where Data Depend on Catching a Wave Ben Worthen 2011

When I think of eco-trips, I envision polar bears hitching rides on melting ice floes in the Arctic.

Mickey Goodman: 7 Ways to Have Fun and Go Green in Denver Mickey Goodman 2011

When I think of eco-trips, I envision polar bears hitching rides on melting ice floes in the Arctic.

Mickey Goodman: 7 Ways to Have Fun and Go Green in Denver Mickey Goodman 2011