Found 1 items, similar to Spoon net.
English → English (gcide) Definition: Spoon net 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. [1913 Webster] “Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,” thus heard I say. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. [1913 Webster] 3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang] --Hood. [1913 Webster] 4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face. --Encyc. of Sport. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 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. [1913 Webster]