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.