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  † 1.  Running before the wind. Obs.–1

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1741.  H. Brooke, Constantia, Poems (1810), 391. The wind fresh blowing from the Syrian shore, Swift through the floods her spooming vessel bore.

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  2.  [By association with spume.] Foaming.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., III. 70. O Moon! far-spooming Ocean bows to thee.

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1865.  Reader, 4 Nov., 509/3. With a spooming plunge … He wrestles shoreward, paddling piteously.

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