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. ❋ 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." ❋ Richard Hakluyt (1584)

"floes" of sufficient size and specific weight to allow removal by sedimentation or filtration. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (1856)

When I think of eco-trips, I envision polar bears hitching rides on melting ice floes in the Arctic. ❋ Mickey Goodman (2011)

A large numer of men died after gettimg trapped on the ice floes while sealing in the Gulf of the Saint Lawrence and got caught in a 3 day raging blizzard, most freezing to death or falling into Davy Jone's locker and drowning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With huge 200,000-strong colonies of little auk thronging the cliffs and shores, kittiwakes next to the cobalt blue glaciers, walrus wallowing in the shallows, Arctic foxes, whales and, of course, one of the ultimate wildlife sightings, the mighty polar bear, frequently seen hunting in its frosty backyard on ice floes. ❋ Paul Steele (2011)

Or that in winter he and his friends rode Hudson River ice floes from 178th Street to 25th? ❋ Laura Jacobs (2011)

I think we must have all dreamed of polar bears because the next day we were eagerly waiting for the ice floes to break up so we could move on to base camp, Wright wrote in his blog posting. ❋ Unknown (2011)

By the way, Swiling is a very dangerous activity, out on the floes of the ice. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Dumpster trucks with slabs of ice, 5′ x 4′ floes, turn fingers blue, shatter on oil-soaked ground. ❋ James Claffey (2011)

They scoffed openly at the idea of disaster relief, global weather change, universal medical care, or a government program that keeps old people from having to wander out onto ice floes. ❋ Doug Molitor (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. ❋ Ben Worthen (2011)

I was [sitting on] the [floe]. ❋ Kriss&Te (2008)

"Hey, have you seen [Floe] [lately]?" "Of course! She's over there, listening to [Taylor Swift]!" ❋ Catseatfloorrest (2023)

Yo is [Floe] comin' to the Party? [I hope so], he rocks, also there's some chicks here who are lookin to [root] him. ❋ Stella Bronx (2004)

Joe: remember that girl at he party she was mad [flirting] with me John: [Yeah but] she was flirting wit me more Tom: [Dide] she was flirting with me too Joe: Aw that girl a Floe ❋ ElBurito (2018)

"Dude, that [Lapp] [dance] in Rovaniemi last night totally got me a hot [floe job]!" ❋ Bunnyluvr (2012)

Can we put [Hillary Clinton] [on the ice] [floe] already? ❋ Robocarp2 (2014)

Boy 1: That party was sick, there was this fine girl that was [flirting] with me all night Person 2: [Yeah I know] what you mean I saw saw you but she was doing the same to me though [Person 3]: Damn she was flirting with me too Person 1: She a Floe then ❋ ElBurito (2018)