field-ice

I had supposed that field-ice was made up of flat cakes, -- and _cake_ of all kinds is among the flattest things I know!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

In the first place, it would be to invite an avalanche; and then, again, wherever the piles fell, the force of that fall broke the field-ice below, and the water rushed up, making a passage through it quite as hazardous as the former.

The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille

Some convulsion of the ice, had strewed the shores of this field with piles of young field-ice about a foot thick, and with this material

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Mr. Boxhall testified that he had crossed the Grand Banks many times, but had never seen field-ice before.

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic Its Story and Its Lessons Lawrence Beesley 1922

Between daylight and dark—that is, between nine o’clock and three—we saw thirty-four ice islands, of various sizes; some no bigger than the hull of our vessel, and others apparently nearly as large as the one that we first saw; though, as we went on, the islands became smaller and more numerous; and, at sundown of this day, a man at the mast-head saw large fields of floating ice called “field-ice” at the south-east.

Chapter XXXI. Bad Prospects-First Touch of Cape Horn-Icebergs-Temperance Ships-Lying-Up-Ice-Difficulty on Board-Change of Course-Straits of Magellan 1909

The wind was still ahead, and the whole ocean, to the eastward, covered with islands and field-ice.

Chapter XXXI. Bad Prospects-First Touch of Cape Horn-Icebergs-Temperance Ships-Lying-Up-Ice-Difficulty on Board-Change of Course-Straits of Magellan 1909

With a fair wind we soon ran clear of the field-ice, and by noon had only the stray islands floating far and near upon the ocean.

Chapter XXXII. Ice Again-A Beautiful Afternoon-Cape Horn-“Land Ho!”-Heading for Home 1909

The engineers 'force had been busy for a week and in the engine-room all was ready for the start north, but another tedious wait occurred while they waited for the field-ice to commence its weary annual drift.

The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic John Henry Goldfrap 1898

"Ah, we are well away from that fellow!" said Mr Meldrum rubbing his hands; but his congratulations were cut short in a moment by the look - out man forward -- the Norwegian sailor, who as an old whaler was accustomed to Antarctic sights and sounds -- shouting out that there was field-ice ahead, and that from the crashing of the floes he thought the ship must be near the pack.

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887

Parts of it are very rough and ridgy, jammed together like field-ice, or compacted by rolls of lava, which may have swelled up from beneath; but the largest part of the area presents the appearance of huge coiled hawsers, the ropy formation of the lava rendering the illusion almost perfect.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877