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English Dictionary: spoon	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for spoon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spoon n a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" Synonym(s): spoon, spoonful formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face v scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast" snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others Synonym(s): smooch, spoon
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\, n. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\, v. i. 1. To fish with a spoon bait. 2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\ (sp[oomac]n), v. i. (Naut.) See {Spoom}. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. --Pepys.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[omac]n, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[86]n, Icel. sp[a0]nn, sp[a2]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. [bd]Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,[b8] 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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\, v. t. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spoon \Spoon\, v. i. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]