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Webster 1828 Edition


Spoon-drift

SPOON-DRIFT

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Noun.
In seamens language, a showery sprinkling of sea water, swept from the surface in a tempest.

Definition 2024


spoon-drift

spoon-drift

See also: spoondrift

English

Noun

spoon-drift (plural spoon-drifts)

  1. (nautical) A cloud of water droplets whipped up from wave-tops in a storm.