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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



... find it if you can," said Mr. Coon. "I did not take those spoons and I do not know where the other spoon is, even if you do, ...
— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker
... altogether a pleasant romance, as is probably the case with a good many romances in reality. Mr. Davis was destined to retain for a long time a vivid recollection of the first night which he spent in alternately feeding that baby with a spoon, and in walking the floor with it; and also to remember the sly glances which his parishioners only half hid from him when his ...
— King Midas • Upton Sinclair
... also, is opposite, and I often look on savory messes as they ripen on the fire—a stirring with a long iron spoon. This spoon is of such unusual length that even if one supped with the devil (surely the fearful adage cannot apply to our quiet street) he might lift his food in safety ...
— Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks
... others. The plant, when well developed, has an appearance not unlike some of the varieties of Cos lettuces; the head being round and full at the top, and tapering thence to the base, forming a tolerably regular, inverted cone. The leaves are erect, of a peculiar ashy or bluish-green hue, spoon-shaped, and clasp or cove over and around the head in the manner of a hood ...
— The Field and Garden Vegetables of America • Fearing Burr
... potato scramble several rows of potatoes were made across the room. Each player was given a large spoon, and whoever first took up all his or her potatoes in the spoons one at a time, and piled them up at the far end of the room, won the game. In this Charley Mason was successful, and won the prize—a pretty ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope


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