spoondrift
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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
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
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
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 Cooper, James A.
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
