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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spoon, n.
 1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
 “Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon
 That shall eat with a fiend,” thus heard I say.   --Chaucer.
    He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.   --Shak.
 2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. Fishing, a spoon bait.
 3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang]
 4. Golf A wooden club with a lofted face.
 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.