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Fine snow driven by the wind
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spindrift
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" Spindrift " is the second single of Rush 's 2007 album Snakes & Arrows . Although released as the second single, the song failed to debut on any commercial chart.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spray of salt water blown along the surf of the sea in heavy winds, c.1600, Scottish formation from verb spene , alteration of spoon "to sail before the wind" (1570s, of uncertain origin) + drift (n.). "Common in English writers from c 1880, probably at ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spoondrift \Spoon"drift\ (-dr[i^]ft), n. [Spoom + drift.] Spray blown from the tops of waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. spray blown up from the surface of the sea [syn: spoondrift ]
Usage examples of spindrift.
And the first detailed drops splashing at the bottom of the goblet with a scatter of spindrift, each fleck embellished with the finicky rigor of some precisionist painting.
Enin and Tull for their thickheadedness and still seeing their fortunes glittering somewhere beyond the spindrift.
I shot out icescrews and drew karabiners in blinding flutries of spindrift.
By afternoon Carcadonn bucked over wavecrests blasted to spindrift, Pummeled by gusts, her gear rattled and crashed aloft.
Not five minutes before, a long lean torpedo-catcher had raced up out of the thickness, and slowed down alongside with the Channel spindrift blowing over her low super-structure in white hail storms.
Black dust rose like spindrift, clogging her throat and causing her nictitating membranes to close over her eyes, just when she needed more light, not less!
Black,dust rose like spindrift, clogging her throat and causing her nictitating membranes to close over her eyes, just when she needed more light, not less!
Both of them were on the pay roll of the Spindrift Foundation as junior technicians.
Although the solitary wave carried within it uncountable gigawatts of energy, Jon and the Spindrift were quite safe.
In a gale, the waves are high with crests that break into spindrift, while in a strong gale the crests topple and roll and dense streaks of foam blow in the wind”.
This is why, of course, the Network’s ships trapped in q-space—that otherwhere of superpositions and spindrift possibilities—wield waveform interrupters, and why, though I was Rachel’s friend, I killed her across several timelines.
Spindrift Island was separated from the New Jersey mainland by a rocky tidal flat, under water at high tide.
Although Spindrift Island was connected to the mainland at low tide by a rocky tidal flat, there was no way for a car to cross.
We've been a solid foursome ever since we Millers moved to Spindrift, and we don't want that to change, but we want to be solid twosomes, too.