Definitions for drift-ice

drift-ice drift ice

Drift-Ice is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 205 anagrams from letters in drift-ice (-cdefiirt).

Definitions for drift-ice

noun

  1. detached floating ice in masses that drift with the wind or ocean currents, as in the polar seas.

Origin of drift-ice

First recorded in 1590-1600

Examples for drift-ice

The roaring of a great river was in their ears, and the grinding of a drift ice.

A rumor of seals on the Arctic drift ice off shore had come in from the Spotted Horses.

Cabot Strait is open all the year, save for occasional inconvenience from drift ice.

But a dense fog made it impossible to venture among the islands, where drift ice might be added to the dangers of rocks.

In one place the passage was blocked up by drift ice, still deeply covered with snow.

A body of drift ice, the pieces of which, though very near each other, do not generally touch.

Nearing Saunders Island, a herd of walruses was seen on a pan of drift ice far ahead.

drift ice beset the whole coast, but during those three days it cleared away southward.

But that Pytheas should have been far enough out in the sea north of Norway to have met with drift ice is scarcely credible.

That patch of drift ice is not in the least likely to extend as far north as our track.

Word Value for drift-ice
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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