Spoon (spOOn), v. i. (Naut.)
See Spoom. [Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
Pepys.
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Spoon, n. [OE. spon, AS. spOn, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. √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.
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Spoon, v. t.
To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
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Spoon, v. i.
To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]
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Spoon (?), n. (Golf)
A wooden club with a lofted face. Encyc. of Sport.
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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, v. i.
1.
To fish with a spoon bait.
2.
In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
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