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spoondrift

[spoon-drift] / ˈspunˌdrɪft /


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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

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

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

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

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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