spoon

a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.

any of various implements, objects, or parts resembling or suggesting this.

a spoonful.

Also called spoon bait.��Angling.��a lure used in casting or trolling for fish, consisting of a bright spoon-shaped piece of metal or the like, swiveled above one or more fishhooks, and revolving as it is drawn through the water.

Also called number three wood.��Golf.��a club with a wooden head whose face has a greater slope than the brassie or driver, for hitting long, high drives from the fairway.

a curved piece projecting from the top of a torpedo tube to guide the torpedo horizontally and prevent it from striking the side of the ship from which it was fired.

(inspoon theory ) a unit of energy that, once used, must be replenished before becoming available again.

to eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon.

to hollow out or shape like a spoon.

Games.��

1. to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion instead of striking it soundly, as in croquet or golf.

2. to hit (a ball) up in the air, as in cricket.

Informal.��to nestle in close contact with (another), as when both are lying on their sides with their knees drawn up, the back of one person tucked into the front of the other like the bowls of two spoons.

Informal: Older Use.��to show affection or love toward (someone) by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.

Informal.��(of two people) to nestle in close contact with one another, as when both are lying on their sides with their knees drawn up, the back of one person tucked into the front of the other like the bowls of two spoons.

Informal: Older Use.��to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, especially in an openly sentimental manner.

Games.��to spoon a ball.

Angling.��to fish with a spoon.