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  • n  foam or froth on the sea
  • v  make froth or foam and become bubbly

  • Smoky 75-seat ekspress boats from Kuching spume up the Rajang (in 13 hours, spread over several legs and days), juddering past sawmills, plywood factories, rusty shipyards and .
  • In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl over imaginary issues.
  • Nine-foot combers bore down upon seawalls, crested and broke, hurling tons of spume 20 feet or higher into the air.
Quotes

  • Eric Newby in Times LIVE
    Newby writes, "The seas approached very deliberately, black and shiny as jet, with smoking white crests, gleaming in the sunshine, hissing as they came, hurling a fine spume into the air as high as the main yard."

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