ice-raft

North

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fairly substantial slab of ice broken off from a large expanse of ice; an ice floe.

See: ice-pan(def. 1)

Quotations

1856

The transporting forces of the ice-raft [were considerable].

1893

. . . an ice-raft is an awkward, unwieldy thing with a tendency to crack in pieces at very critical moments in the passage.

1931

Would their ice-raft continue its drift ashore? Or would it float away to sea again?