Definitions for floe

floe floe

Spelling: [floh]
IPA: /floʊ/

Floe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in floe (eflo).

Definitions for floe

noun

  1. Also called ice floe. a sheet of floating ice, chiefly on the surface of the sea, smaller than an ice field.
  2. a detached floating portion of such a sheet.

Origin of floe

1810-20; perhaps Norwegian flo layer (compare Old Norse flō layer, level); cognate with Old English flōh piece, flagstone; cf. flaw1

Examples for floe

Though the floe had been considerable no mishap occurred to them.

About seven o'clock we heard a splashing out along the floe.

"Be ready, now," said Kit; when some one of the party on the floe fired on a sudden.

One was seen at some distance from a floe, in which there was a crack.

The whale was killed, and made fast to the floe, waiting for the return of the ship.

She must have been caught in the floe before she could make her way into harbour for shelter.

To get through this floe, it was necessary to form a channel with the ice-saws.

We towed the carcass up to the edge of the floe, and pulled it up.

She at last rose close to a floe, when we all rushed in upon her.

She appeared about a quarter of a mile off or more, at the edge of the floe.

Word Value for floe
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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