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.