spoondrift
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of spoondrift
1760–70; spoon, variant of obsolete spoom (of a ship) to run or scud before the wind + drift
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The spoondrift, too, came straight along our deck, over the taffrail, as if it would cut our legs off; for, though we flew at a pretty good rate, it flew faster.
From The Three Lieutenants by Archibald Webb
She dodged occasionally to protect her eyes from the spoondrift which slatted so sharply across the deck and 156 into the cockpit.
From Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club by Amy Bell Marlowe
The spoondrift began to fly so that you could not see the moon, and the wind was enough to choke you if you faced it.
From The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary by James Runciman
Amid a mass of spoondrift the schooner drove helplessly before it.
From Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by C. J. de Lacey
It tears the foaming crests off half a dozen waves, and sends them swirling down to leeward in shivering sheets of snowy spoondrift.
From Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 by Various
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