spoon-ways

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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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• -ways

  ·- A suffix formed from way by the addition of the adverbial -s (see -wards). It is often used inter...

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• ways

  for way, distance, space. A very common vulgarism. It's only a little ways down to the village.--Ma...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• ways

  Balks laid down for rolling weights along. ♦ Launching-ways. Two parallel platforms of solid timbe...

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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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• wooden spoon

  (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See wranglers, optime. ...

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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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• By-ways

  Only in Judg. 5:6 and Ps. 125:5; literally "winding or twisted roads." The margin has "crooked ways....

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• bulge-ways

  Otherwise bilge-ways (which see). ...

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• ground-ways

  The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...

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• ladder-ways

  The hatchways, scuttles or other openings in the decks, wherein the ladders are placed. ...

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• launching-ways

  In ship-building, the bed of timber placed on the incline under the bottom of a ship; otherwise call...

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• loover-ways

  Battens or boards placed at a certain angle, so as to admit air, but not wet; a kind of Venetian-bli...

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• water-ways

  Certain deck-planks which are wrought next to the timbers; they serve to connect the sides of a ship...

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• ways and means

  The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...

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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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