1. A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.
2. something similar to this utensil or its bowl, as:
3. A shiny, curved, metallic fishing lure.
4. A paddle or an oar with a curved blade.
5. sports the three wood golf club.
6. to lift, scoop up, or carry with or as if with a spoon.
7. Sports & Games To shove or scoop (a ball) into the air.
8. to fish with a spoon lure.
9. Sports & Games To give a ball an upward scoop.
10. informal to engage in amorous behavior, such as kissing or caressing.

1. an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
2. an implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
3. A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
4. A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
5. A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
6. A spoon excavator.
7. A simpleton, a spooney.
8. to serve using a spoon.
9. to flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
10. to lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
11. to hit weakly
12. to turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.

1. an implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
2. anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (fishing), a spoon bait.
3. fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
4. A wooden club with a lofted face.
5. see spoom.
6. to act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
7. to fish with a spoon bait.
8. in croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
9. to take up in, or as in, a spoon.
10. to catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
11. in croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

1. to take up or out with a spoon or ladle; remove with a spoon; empty or clean out with a spoon: often with up: as, to spoon up a liquid.
2. to lie close to, the face of one to the back of the other, as the bowl of one spoon within that of another. compare spoon-fashion.
3. in croquet, to use the mallet as a spoon; push or shove the ball along with the mallet instead of striking it smartly as is required by the strict rules of the game.
4. to fish with spoon-bait.
5. to lie spoonfashion. compare I., 2.
6. same as spoom.
7. to be a spoon or spoony; be sillily in love.
8. in angling, to fish for with spoon-bait.
9. in golf, croquet, and similar games, to send (the ball) into the air with the club or mallet.
10. specifically, in cricket, to send (the ball) high in the air by a mishit.
11. in golf, to move (the club) very slowly in putting, as though it were a teaspoon: an unfair stroke.
12. to be spoony about; be in love with; court.
13. A thin piece of wood; a splinter; a chip.
14. A utensil consisting of a bowl or concave part and a handle, used for conveying liquids or liquid food to the mouth.
15. something wholly or in part like a spoon (def. 2) or the bowl of a spoon in shape.
16. at Yale, formerly, the student who took the last appointment at the junior exhibition; later, the most popular student in a class.
17. A foolish fellow; a simpleton; a spoony; a silly lover.
18. A fit of silliness; especially, a fit of silly love.
19. in pianoforte-making, see damper-lifter.
20. in cricket, a mishit which sends the ball high in the air.

1. formerly a golfing wood with an elevated face
2. snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others
3. a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
4. as much as a spoon will hold
5. scoop up or take up with a spoon