| 1. | A utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle. |
| 2. | Any of various implements, objects, or parts resembling or suggesting this. |
| 3. | A spoonful. |
| 4. | Also called spoon bait. Angling. a lure used in casting or trolling for fish, consisting of a bright spoon-shaped piece of metal or the like, swiveled above one or more fishhooks, and revolving as it is drawn through the water. |
| 5. | Also called number three wood. Golf. a club with a wooden head whose face has a greater slope than the brassie or driver, for hitting long, high drives from the fairway. |
| 6. | A curved piece projecting from the top of a torpedo tube to guide the torpedo horizontally and prevent it from striking the side of the ship from which it was fired. |
–verb (used with object)
| 7. | To eat with, take up, or transfer in or as in a spoon. |
| 8. | To hollow out or shape like a spoon. |
| 9. | Games.
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| 10. | Informal. to show affection or love toward by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner. |
–verb (used without object)
| 11. | Informal. to show affection or love by kissing and caressing, esp. in an openly sentimental manner. |
| 12. | Games. to spoon a ball. |
| 13. | Angling. to fish with a spoon. |
—Idiom
| 14. | Born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, born into a wealthy family; having an inherited fortune: She was born with a silver spoon in her mouth and never worked a day in her life. |
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