drift-ice
[f. drift n.]
Drifting or drifted ice; esp. detached pieces of ice drifting with the wind or ocean currents.
| 1600 Hakluyt Voy. III. 65 (R.) We were greatly endangered with a piece of drift yce, which the ebbe brought foorth of the sounds. 1694 Acc. Sev. Late Voy. ii. (1711) 221 The Coast so full of drift Ice, that it is almost inaccessible. 1772–84 Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1892 We spent the night standing off and on, among the drift ice. 1820 Scoresby in Ann. Reg. ii. 1324 Drift-ice consists of pieces less than floes, of various shapes and magnitudes. |