spoondrift
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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
At six bells in the morning watch the main-topsail blew out of the bolt-ropes with a report like a gun's, and went swirling away into the flying spoondrift down on our lee quarter.
From Harper's Round Table, June 18, 1895 by Various
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 Webb, Archibald
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
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
