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noun

Spoon n.

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."

Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. (Slang)

(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.

To take up in, or as in, a spoon.

(Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait. "He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike."

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.

To fish with a spoon bait.

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

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Etymology of 'Spoon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spoon" Quotes from Famous Books

... used to have exactly the same meaning. We now say a person looks "spick and span" when he or she is very neatly dressed. Formerly the expression was "spick and span new"—that is, as new as a spike (or spoon) just made or a chip newly cut. We may safely say that very few people who now use the expression "spick and span" have any idea of what it means literally. The metaphor is well hidden, ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... giving the suspected man so much genuine pleasure, he had held up the object of his labor several times so they could plainly identify it as a birdskin with the most lovely rosy-tinted feathery plumage, long legs and a spoon-shaped bill. ...

— Eagles of the Sky - With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes • Ambrose Newcomb

... together. The manner of effecting this is by putting into the earthen or other vessel in which it is boiled a quantity of water sufficient to cover it, letting it simmer over a slow fire, taking off the water by degrees with a flat ladle or spoon that the grain may dry, and removing it when just short of burning. At their entertainments the guests are treated with rice prepared also in a variety of modes, by frying it in cakes or boiling a particular species of it mixed with the ...

— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... the advent of each scion of the family tree was suspended about the neck of the infant at baptism, being supposed to exert some beneficent influence. Especially in the East, about the seventh century, we find that a small vessel, or spoon, sometimes of gold, was used in the churches These were eucharistic utensils, by means of which communicants conveyed the sacred elements to the mouth; but this custom was forbidden and done away with, though probably the ...

— Over the Border: Acadia • Eliza Chase

... my price for the spoon," answered Little John, tossing off the ale at a draught. "Give it to me, brother, or return me my spoon. I do not find your ale to my taste," he added, wiping ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

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