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Spoon (sp&oomac;n), v. i. (Naut.) See Spoom. [Obs.]

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

Spoon, n. [OE. spon, AS. spōn, 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.

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

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

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

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.

Spoon, v. i. 1. To fish with a spoon bait.

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

Spoon (sp&oomac;n), v. i. (Naut.) See Spoom. [Obs.]

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

Spoon, n. [OE. spon, AS. spōn, 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.

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

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

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

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.

Spoon, v. i. 1. To fish with a spoon bait.

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

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • an implement for eating or serving, a small bowl with a long straight handle (with a curved handle it is a ladle)
  • an implement for stirring food while being prepared
  • a person of low intelligence
  • (Sports) archaic: a wooden headed golf club with moderate loft. Similar to a modern three wood
  • (of sailing vessels) to turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, as a sailboat does when heading nearly into a wind that varies direction slightly
  • (slang; late 19th-early 20th century; of people) to have a nervously ambivalent romantic rendez-vous, as young people had during the age of chaperones, from turning one's head toward and away from the other person as the sailing ship did
  • (slang; late 20th century; of people) to lie nested together, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons; usually has a sexual connotation
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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