Definition of "spoondrift" []

• See spindrift. (noun)

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• "As the gale increased, the tops of the waves were shorn off by the fierce blasts, clouding the whole atmosphere with frozen spray, or what the sailors call "spoondrift," rendering it impossible to see any object a few rods distant."
• "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."
• "There was no rain -- just a wind which tore across the waste of waters within view of her station, scattering their crests in foam and spoondrift, and rolling them in huger and still huger breakers on the strand."