LekhoriLekhoriSea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
There was no snow as yet up here at Dare; but wild tempests shaking the house to its foundations; and brief gleams of stormy sunlight lighting up the grey spindrift as it was whirled shorewards from the breaking seas; […]
Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.
Borrowed from Scots spindrift; further etymology uncertain. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests it is a variant of spoondrift (archaic), apparently due to the pronunciation of this word in southwes...
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