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spin drift

spin drift is the alternative form of spindrift.

Meaning of spindrift

Noun

spindrift (countable and uncountable, plural spindrifts)

  1. Sea 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; […]1878, William Black, “First Impressions”, in Macleod of Dare. […], volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 252
  2. (broadly) Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.

Forms of spin drift

pluralspin drifts

Questions about spin drift

What is spin drift the alternative form of?
Spin drift is the alternative form of spindrift.

Words near spin drift in the dictionary

  1. spin doctorings
  2. spin doctors
  3. spin down
  4. spin drier
  5. spin driers
  6. spin drift
  7. spin dryer
  8. spin dryers
  9. spin echo
  10. spin echoes
  11. spin foam

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spin drift (page history and authors); spindrift (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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