patch ice

Example Sentences

• "The wind also veered now to the westward, and the vessles were hauled up to the south-east, steering between ice-bergs and broken patch ice; but scarcely any birds were yet to be seen; though, on the 20th, two nellies were observed, and one albatross, being the first since leaving the latitude of South Georgia."
• "Adult seals tend to remain in the moving patch ice, but the young seals are often seen in ice free nearshore areas.·"
• "Or maybe they fought on patch ice or ice-patch reef (where the water isolates the ice above, which becomes an eggshell-like membrane)."
• "Toward night the wind changed to north, and thinned out the patch-ice, driving it southward, so that by ten o'clock, evening , we were able to get in our ice-anchors and make sail, continuing our voyage, and making about four knots an hour till nine o'clock next morning, when we were off a small island, the first of a straggling group on the south side of the strait."
• "There had already been flurries, and in some places the road down from the Overlook was slick with patch ice."
• "Patch ice clung to reeds and willow branches along the banks."