Noun: floe
Sample Sentences
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We could never pause when hauling through current-driven slush and ice for fear that the floes would slam together and crush one or both of the hulls. [1989, Jeff MacInnis, “Braving the Northwest Passage”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, pages 590-591:]
Nouns inflected like floe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Early 19th century. Probably from Norwegian Nynorsk flo (“layer, slab”), from Old Norse fló (“layer”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
fló'.