Spoom
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Spoom is a verb meaning (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
Meaning
(nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
More Meanings
- A sorbet containing fruit juice
Example Sentences
17th century: Samuel Pepys We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
17th century: John Dryden When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
Word Forms
- spooms
- spooming
- spoomed
- spoon
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sail, boom, scud, stretch, point, outsail.
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