Usually means: Spray blown from cresting waves.
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  1. spindrift: Merriam-Webster
  2. spindrift: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spindrift: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spindrift: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spindrift: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spindrift, spindrift: Wordnik
  7. spindrift: Wiktionary
  8. spindrift: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. spindrift: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spindrift: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. spindrift: Dictionary.com
  12. spindrift: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Spindrift (band), Spindrift (disambiguation), Spindrift (novel), Spindrift (song), Spindrift: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. spindrift: Rhymezone
  15. spindrift: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  16. spindrift: FreeDictionary.org
  17. spindrift: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. spindrift: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spindrift (song), spindrift: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spindrift: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spindrift: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Spindrift: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (spindrift)

noun:  (nautical) Sea spray (clouds of water droplets) blown from the tops of waves by the wind and whipped along the surface of the sea.
noun:  (by extension) Clouds of sand, snow, etc., whipped along the ground by the wind.

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