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spoom - What does it mean?

Definition of 'spoom'

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • (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.

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