2 entries under this word

Spoon

Spōōn, n.

noun

n. [A-S. spōn, spoon, a chip, L. Ger. spoon, D. spaan, Ger. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. spån, Icel. spānn, spōnn, a chip, a spoon.] An instrument consisting of a small concave basin with a handle, used especially in preparing or partaking of food.

He needs a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.

Spōōn, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. (Naut.) To put before the wind in a gale, especially with little or no sail. See Spoom. [Obs. and rare.] We might have spooned before the wind as well as they. Pepys.