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
Example Sentences
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The oil slick helped only a little; every few moments a wave with spoondrift flying from it would smash across the deck, volleying tons of water between rails, with a sound like thunder.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day
A curtain of spoondrift hung above that awful reef and almost shut from the view of those ashore the open sea and what swam on it.
From Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper by James A. Cooper
At six bells in the morning watch the main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes with a report like a gun's, and went swirling away into the flying spoondrift down on our lee quarter.
From Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 by Various
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
It was impossible to face the scud and spoondrift from the furious sea; but to leeward he caught a glimpse of a marsh flooded with salt water, its reedy vegetation beaten flat by the storm.
From Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennett
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