spoon bit

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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