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spoondrift|ˈspuːndrɪft|
[f. spoon v.1 + drift n.]
Spray swept from the tops of waves by a violent wind and driven continuously along the surface of the sea. Now commonly spindrift.
1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Spoon-Drift, a sort of showery sprinkling of the sea-water, swept from the surface of the waves in a tempest, and flying according to the direction of the wind like a vapour. 1791Nairne Poems 109 When the bold seaman can no longer brave The dreadful spoondrift of the foaming wave. 1840Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 181/2 A light-vessel..ever and anon submerged in the trough of sea, spray, and spoon-drift. 1847Sir J. C. Ross Voy. Antarct. Reg. I. 51 The violent gusts that rushed along the almost perpendicular coast line, raising the spoon⁓drift in clouds over us. 1886R. C. Leslie Sea Painter's Log 108 The hard black hills of water..being almost hidden a few hundred yards from the ship by this driving spoondrift.
transf.1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 644 Driving snow is also sometimes termed spoon-drift. |