drift ice

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   masses of ice floating in the open sea

   Broaderice

Questions about drift ice

What does drift ice mean?

drift ice means "masses of ice floating in the open sea".

Is drift ice a common word?

drift ice is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.