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Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
v. i.(sp***oomac]n)
Spoon
(Naut.)
  1. See Spoom.
    [Obs.]

    We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
n.
Spoon
  1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

    "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
    That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say.     Chaucer.

    He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.

  2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
  3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
    [Slang] Hood.

    Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached. -- Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side. -- Spoon net, a net for landing fish. -- Spoon oar. see under Oar.

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
v. t.
Spoon
  1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
v. i.
Spoon
  1. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
    [Colloq.]

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
n.(?)
Spoon
(Golf)
  1. A wooden club with a lofted face.
    Encyc. of Sport.

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
v. t.
Spoon
  1. To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

    He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike. Mrs. Humphry Ward.

  2. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

Spoon

Spoon (spoon)
v. i.
Spoon
  1. To fish with a spoon bait.
  2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.












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