scatter v Of a field of ice, to break up, disperse.
1667 YONGE 128 See no ice, till standing Westward till 8, see many shelfs and scattering ice before us. [1937] 1983 FROUDE 10 The ice was heavy and scatern and to rought to lie up when about 12 oclock on the 19. we struck a block of ice and knocked the stem out of our vessel.
