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1. : sea spray. especially : spray blown from waves during a gale. 2. : fine wind-borne snow or sand. Did you know? Spindrift first set sail in the mid-18th century under Scottish command. During its first voyage, it was known by the Scottish moniker "speendrift."
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small drops of water or snow, or small pieces of sand, carried in the wind: You can see snow whipping off the far mountain peaks as spindrift. At the pier the wind was gusting to sixty or seventy knots with spindrift flying everywhere. Fewer examples. Nightfall blanked out the mist and spindrift.
Spindrift definition: spray swept by a violent wind along the surface of the sea.. See examples of SPINDRIFT used in a sentence.
Spindrift (more rarely spoondrift) is the spray blown from cresting waves during a gale. This spray, which "drifts" in the direction of the gale, is one of the characteristics of a wind speed of 8 Beaufort and higher at sea. In Greek and Roman mythology, Leucothea was the goddess of spindrift.
Definitions of spindrift. noun. spray blown up from the surface of the sea. synonyms: spoondrift. see more.
spindrift in British English. (ˈspɪnˌdrɪft ) noun. 1. spray blown up from the surface of the sea. 2. powdery snow blown off a mountain. Nontechnical name: spoondrift. Collins English Dictionary.
1. (Physical Geography) spray blown up from the surface of the sea. 2. (Physical Geography) powdery snow blown off a mountain. Nontechnical name: spoondrift. [C17: of Scottish origin, possibly from a variant of obsolete spoon to scud + drift]
