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Pronunciation : Spoon
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: See Spoom. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.

i. (Naut.)
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Spoon
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. spon, AS. sp, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp?n, Icel. sp?nn, sp?nn, a chip, a spoon. sq. root170. Cf. Span-new.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Spoon
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To take up in, a spoon.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Spoon
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love. [Colloq.]

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913