wooden spoon

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• Spoon

  ·noun Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. II. Spoon ·vi ·see <<Spoom>>. III. Spoon ·vt To take up in, or...

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• Wooden

  ·adj Clumsy; awkward; ungainly; stiff; spiritless. II. Wooden ·adj Made or consisting of wood; pert...

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• Heart-spoon

  ·noun A part of the breastbone. ...

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• Spoon-billed

  ·adj Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end. ...

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• Spoon-meat

  ·noun Food that is, or must be, taken with a spoon; liquid food. ...

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• spoon hand

  The right hand. ...

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• spoon-drift

  A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• wooden habeas

  A coffin. A man who dies in prison is said to go out with a wooden habeas. He went out with a wooden...

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• wooden horse

  To fide the wooden horse was a military punishment formerly in use. This horse consisted of two or m...

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• wooden ruff

  The pillory. See norway neckcloth. ...

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• wooden surtout

  A coilin. ...

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• pear, wooden

  i.q. native pear. See above. ...

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• wooden pear

  n. a tree peculiar to New SouthWales and Queensland, Xylomelum pyriforme, Smith, N.O. Proteaceae; c...

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• wooden buoys

  Buoyant constructions of wood of various shapes, with a ring-bolt at each end, to which vessels can ...

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• wooden walls

  A term signifying the fleet, and though thought to be peculiarly English, was used by the Delphic or...

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• wooden-wings

  The lee-boards, for keeping barges to windward. ...

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• Wooden World Court

  North out of Bell Alley, east of Bridgewater Gardens on the northern boundary of Cripplegate Ward Wi...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

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• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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