Spoon \Spoon\ (sp[=oo]n), v. i. (Naut.)
   See {Spoom}. [Obs.]
   
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         We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
                                                  --Pepys.
   
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Spoon \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.
      
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            "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
            That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say.
                                                  --Chaucer.
      
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            He must have a long spoon that must eat with the
            devil.                                --Shak.
      
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   2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing),
      a spoon bait.
      
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   3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood.
      
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   4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of
      Sport.
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   {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}.
      
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Spoom \Spoom\ (sp[=oo]m), v. i. [Probably fr. spume 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}.]
   
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         When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
         My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. --Dryden.
   
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. t.
   1. To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
      
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   2. (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.

            He had with him all the tackle necessary for
            spooning pike.                        --Mrs. Humphry
                                                  Ward.
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   3. In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a
      lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. i.
   To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in
   love. [Colloq.]
   
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Spoon \Spoon\, v. i.
   1. To fish with a spoon bait.
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   2. In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
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