spoomingadj.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [adjective] > running before the wind
spooming1741
scudding1762
1741 H. Brooke Constantia in Poems (1810) 391 The wind fresh blowing from the Syrian shore, Swift through the floods her spooming vessel bore.
2. [By association with spume.] Foaming.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [adjective] > full of or covered with foam or froth
foamyOE
foaminga1400
spumingc1400
frothy?1531
spurging1566
fretting1567
fuming1598
white-mouthed1598
frory1600
yeastya1616
frothed1616
frothing1628
lathering1630
mantling1633
sudding1633
spumeous1635
spewy1743
spooming1818
despumatious1819
yeastinga1821
creaming1825
spumous1854
frothsome1880
lathery1880
bubblesome1946
1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 108 O Moon! far-spooming Ocean bows to thee.
1865 Reader 4 Nov. 509/3 With a spooming plunge..He wrestles shoreward, paddling piteously.
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