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

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

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

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.

The oil slick helped only a little; every few moments a wave with spoondrift flying from it would smash across the deck, volleying tons of water between rails, with a sound like thunder.

From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Day, Holman