floeberg
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of floeberg
Example Sentences
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“But it was a sight we did not like, for the floes were thudding against our floeberg with increasing violence. Our temporary home was being swept away at an unpleasantly rapid rate.”
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
The ship had steamed but a short distance, when, owing to the rapidly drifting ice in the channel, she had to be made fast to a floeberg.
From A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Booker T. Washington
A big floeberg resting peacefully ahead caught my eye, and half an hour later we had hauled up the boats and pitched camp for the night.
From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton
We are sheltered north of a huge paleocrystic floeberg; and the dogs are at rest, with their noses in their tails.
From A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Booker T. Washington
We pitched camp on a floeberg of unusual height; about us were many big hummocks, and to the lee of these banks of hardened snow.
From My Attainment of the Pole by Frederick A. Cook
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