SPOOM
Spoom, v. i. Etym: [Probably fr. spum foam. See Spume.] (Naut.)
Defn: 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.
SPOON
Spoon, v. i. (Naut.)
Defn: See Spoom. [Obs.]
We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.
SPOON
Spoon, n. Etym: [OE. spon, AS. sp, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span,
Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spánn, spónn, a chip, a spoon. sq.
root170. 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
Spoon, v. t.
Defn: To take up in, a spoon.