spoon

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A utensil consisting of a small, shallow bowl on a handle, used in preparing, serving, or eating food.
• noun Something similar to this utensil or its bowl, as.
• noun A shiny, curved, metallic fishing lure.
• noun A paddle or an oar with a curved blade.
• noun Sports A three wood golf club.
• intransitive verb To lift, scoop up, or carry with or as if with a spoon.
• intransitive verb Sports & Games To shove or scoop (a ball) into the air.
• intransitive verb Informal To lie down behind and against (another person) so that both bodies face the same direction with the knees drawn up slightly like nested spoons.
• intransitive verb To fish with a spoon lure.
• intransitive verb Sports & Games To give a ball an upward scoop.
• intransitive verb Informal To lie down with another person so that both bodies face the same direction with the knees drawn up slightly like spoons nested in each other.
• intransitive verb Informal To engage in amorous behavior, such as kissing or caressing.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To take up or out with a spoon or ladle; remove with a spoon; empty or clean out with a spoon: often with up: as, to spoon up a liquid.
• To lie close to, the face of one to the back of the other, as the bowl of one spoon within that of another. Compare spoon-fashion.
• In croquet, to use the mallet as a spoon; push or shove the ball along with the mallet instead of striking it smartly as is required by the strict rules of the game.
• To fish with spoon-bait.
• To lie spoonfashion. Compare I., 2.
• noun A thin piece of wood; a splinter; a chip.
• noun A utensil consisting of a bowl or concave part and a handle, used for conveying liquids or liquid food to the mouth.
• noun Something wholly or in part like a spoon (def. 2) or the bowl of a spoon in shape.
• noun At Yale, formerly, the student who took the last appointment at the Junior Exhibition; later, the most popular student in a class.
• Same as spoom.
• To be a spoon or spoony; be sillily in love.
• noun A foolish fellow; a simpleton; a spoony; a silly lover.
• noun A fit of silliness; especially, a fit of silly love.
• noun In pianoforte-making, see damper-lifter.
• noun In cricket, a mishit which sends the ball high in the air.
• In angling, to fish for with spoon-bait.
• In golf, croquet, and similar games, to send (the ball) into the air with the club or mallet.
• Specifically, in cricket, to send (the ball) high in the air by a mishit.
• In golf, to move (the club) very slowly in putting, as though it were a teaspoon: an unfair stroke.
• To be spoony about; be in love with; court.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb (Naut.), obsolete See spoom.
• noun An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
• noun Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
• noun Slang Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
• noun (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face.
• noun (Fishing) a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached.
• noun a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.
• noun a net for landing fish.
• noun See under Oar.
• intransitive verb To fish with a spoon bait.
• intransitive verb In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball.
• intransitive verb colloq. To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
• transitive verb To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
• transitive verb (Fishing) To catch by fishing with a spoon bait.
• transitive verb In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb nautical To turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, in the manner of a sailing boat heading nearly directly into a shifting wind.
• noun An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
• noun An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.