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• A showery sprinkling of sea-water, swept from the surface in a tempest.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

• The water of billows at sea seattered in a heavy shower of spray by the violence and intensity of the tempest.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.