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Spoon   /spun/   Listen
noun
Spoon  n.  
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." "He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil."
2.
Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
3.
Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. (Slang)
4.
(Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face.
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.


verb
Spoon  v. t.  
1.
To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
2.
(Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait. "He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike."
3.
In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.


Spoom  v. i.  (Written also spoon)  (Naut.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. "When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail."


Spoon  v. i.  (Naut.) See Spoom. (Obs.) "We might have spooned before the wind as well as they."


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


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





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"Spoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... upper lip is helmeted, or hooked—"galeatum est, vel falcatum." In the second, the upper lip is excavated like a spoon—"cochlearis instar est excavatum." In the third the upper lip is erect. And in the fourth there is ...
— Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... James, and the soup in his spoon dribbled over, "you'll have a good allowance; but you must ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... grown cold, and a slight coating of grease had formed over the top. Marie-Anne took the spoon, skimmed the bouillon, and then stirred it up for some time, to divide the ...
— The Honor of the Name • Emile Gaboriau
... on the table sat a flat clay-made plate that was to do service for many needs. Beside the plate were the birchbark cup to drink water from, a birchbark napkin ring that held a paper napkin, and the usual knife, fork and spoon. ...
— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... if I was you. Think what it would be to live with it all the time. You look in the black pocketbook inside my handbag and take a dime and go downtown and get an ice-cream soda. That'll make you feel better. Thor can have a little of the ice-cream if you feed it to him with a spoon. He likes it, don't you, son?" She stooped to wipe his chin. Thor was only six months old and inarticulate, but it was quite true that he ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather


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