Definition of "floes" []

• Plural form of floe. (noun)

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