ˈspooming, ppl. a.
[f. prec.]
† 1. Running before the wind. Obs.—1
| 1741 H. Brooke Constantia Poems (1810) 391 The wind fresh blowing from the Syrian shore, Swift through the floods her spooming vessel bore. |
2. [By association with spume.] Foaming.
| 1818 Keats Endym. iii. 70 O Moon! far-spooming Ocean bows to thee. 1865 Reader 4 Nov. 509/3 With a spooming plunge..He wrestles shoreward, paddling piteously. |