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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



... guisado is cooked," said she, after lifting a portion of the stew on a wooden spoon, and examining it; "let ...
— The White Chief - A Legend of Northern Mexico • Mayne Reid
... beads of perspiration stood on his forehead, but his voice sounded natural and controlled as he stood with cup and spoon ...
— Three People • Pansy
... and two leather sacks, containing a flannel shirt, warm trousers, and a woollen night-cap, spare ammunition, washing-rod, coffee, bread, sugar, pepper and salt, dried meat, a wooden bowl, and a tea-spoon. These sacks were carried on the shoulders of the natives, for which service I remunerated them with beads. They also carried my coffee-kettle, two calabashes of water, two American axes, and two sickles, which I used every evening to cut grass for ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... "two slabs of granite cemented together," which covered a walled grave three feet square, an ancient kist-vaen. In it they found an earthenware vessel, containing some black earth and a leaden spoon. The spoon was given to Mr. Praed, of Trevethow; the kist-vaen was ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... dey s'lected me out to be a housegirl an' den I slep' in de big house. All de little niggers et in de white folks' kitchen out'n er big tray whut wuz lak a trough. De cook put our victuals in de tray an' gib us a spoon an' pone er bread a piece an' made us set 'roun' dat tray an' eat all us wanted. 'Hit wuz good ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration


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