Crossword Dictionary

What's The Definition Of Spoon?

\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[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.) See {Spoom}. [Obs.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. --Pepys.
\Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn, sp['o]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. ``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.]