Spoon \Spoon\, v. i.

1. To fish with a spoon bait.

2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.

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Spoon \Spoon\, n. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport.

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Spoon \Spoon\, v. t.

1. (Fishing) 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.

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Spoon \Spoon\, v. t. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

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Spoom \Spoom\, v. i. [Probably fr. spum foam. See Spume.]

(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. [Written also spoon.]

When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. --Dryden.

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Spoon \Spoon\, v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]

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Spoon \Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.) See Spoom. [Obs.]

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

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Spoon \Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn, sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]170. Cf. Span-new.]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)