brash ice

noun

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

Example Sentences

The wind was bitter, but it was impossible to row fast enough to keep warm—the danger of ramming into the large chunks of brash ice that surrounded them was too great.

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There’s brash ice, pancake ice, bullet ice, green ice, frazil, nilas, breccia, shuga, slush ice, rotten ice, pressure ice, grease ice, ice dust, shorefast ice, ice flowers, ice haycocks, ice saddles, floes, calf bergs, growlers, and sastrugi, to name just a few.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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