bergy bits
BER-gee bits
Small fragments of glacial ice floating in the sea — too large to be called brash ice, too small to qualify as icebergs. Each piece is compressed snow hundreds or thousands of years old, released into the ocean by a calving glacier.
Etymology
English compound. Berg from German/Norwegian for mountain; bit in the sense of a small piece. A maritime classification term.
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