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spoom

spoom verb: to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.

Verb

spoom (third-person singular simple present spooms, present participle spooming, simple past and past participle spoomed)

  1. 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.

Noun

spoom (plural spooms)

  1. A sorbet containing fruit juice

Forms of spoom

Verb
third-person singular presentspooms
present participlespooming
past participlespoomed
pastspoomed
alternative formspoon
Noun
pluralspooms

Origin of spoom

Probably a variant of spume (“foam”).

Questions about spoom

What does spoom mean?
Spoom means to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
What part of speech is spoom?
Spoom can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of spoom?
The past tense of spoom is spoomed.

Words near spoom in the dictionary

  1. spools up
  2. spoolsful
  3. spoolup
  4. spoolwood
  5. spoolwork
  6. spoom
  7. spoomed
  8. spooming
  9. spooms
  10. spoon
  11. spoon bowl

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