'Spoon bait' definitions:

Definition of 'Spoon bait'

From: GCIDE
  • 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]