spoondrift

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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 Bennett, Robert Ames

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 Marlowe, Amy Bell

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 Lacey, C. J. de

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 Runciman, James

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