“White-capped waves crash far below the cliffs and sweep out to the horizon, spindrift [ˈspɪnˌdrɪft] tosses up mini-rainbows and creamy plumes of sea froth float up and over.” — Amanda Thomson, The Guardian (London), 5 Sept. 2024

spindrift
noun Sspindrift [ˈspɪnˌdrɪft]

Spindrift refers to spray blown from waves during a gale or to fine wind-borne snow or sand.

...The Scots had by that point been using speendrift for well over a century; their verb speen means “to rush forcefully along with a strong wind,” so speendrift referred to a drift of salty sea spray during such sailing. In the 1820s, English speakers recruited the word, but signed it up as spindrift

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