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Webster 1913 Edition
Spoom
Spoom
(spoōm)
, Verb.
I.
[Probably fr.
spume
foam. See Spume
.] (Naut.)
To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
[Written also
spoon
.] When virtue
My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
spooms
before a prosperous gale,My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
Dryden.
Webster 1828 Edition
Spoom
SPOOM
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
spoom
spoom
English
Alternative forms
Verb
spoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)
- (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
- 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.
- 17th century: Samuel Pepys