About The Word Spoon

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Spoon

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What's The Definition Of Spoon?
[n] a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
[n] formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face [n] as much as a spoon will hold; "he added two spoons of sugar" [v] cuddling and kissing [v] scoop up or take up with a spoon; "spoon the sauce over the roast" Synonyms | Synonyms for Spoon: smooch | snog | spoonful Related Terms | Find terms related to Spoon: See Also | container | containerful | cutlery | dessert spoon | eating utensil | immerse | make out | neck | plunge | remove | runcible spoon | soup spoon | soupspoon | sugar shell | sugar spoon | tablespoon | take | take away | tea maker | teaspoon | withdraw | wood | wooden spoon Spoon In Webster's Dictionary \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.] |
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