brash ice

American  

noun

1. small, floating fragments of sea ice or river ice.

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Example Sentences

For three weeks, they maneuvered slowly toward Prime Head up the Bransfield Strait, a waterway between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic mainland, clogged with brash ice and calving icebergs.

From The New Yorker

Gargantuan icebergs and smaller growlers in the distance, or a swirling, watery stew of frozen chunks called bergy bits and brash ice floating past the ship.

From Washington Post

What we find instead are smaller “growlers” — ice chunks larger than six feet across but less than three feet above water — and “brash ice,” large patches of accumulated small, floating fragments.

From Washington Post

That brash ice thickens as we approach Beloit Glacier, the most active of the three glaciers on our tour and the source of much of the moaning and groaning.

From Washington Post

The deepest part of the river, where the cutters make their trail, is frozen with what is called “brash ice,” softer ice that the cutters break up.

From New York Times