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spindrifts

spindrifts is the plural 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.

Questions about spindrifts

What is spindrifts the plural of?
Spindrifts is the plural of spindrift.

Words near spindrifts in the dictionary

  1. spindoctors
  2. spindom
  3. spindown
  4. spindowns
  5. spindrift
  6. spindrifts
  7. spine
  8. spine board
  9. spine boards
  10. spine chilling
  11. spine pig

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