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drift-ice 
n. small ice masses drifting in the sea.
- 1829 . . . even the heaviest drift ice rushing before a flood would not be able to sweep them away.
- 1902 (1964) . . . we had a remarkably striking view of drift-ice streaming west-south-west into the strait. . . . The Labrador current was a vivid reality to us as we watched the truly majestic procession of these dazzling migrants from a polar sea.
- 1965 . . . a hunter was carried out to the Gulf of Georgia and drowned by being caught in drift ice in a small punt.
- 1829 . . . even the heaviest drift ice rushing before a flood would not be able to sweep them away.