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spoon-hook

spoon-hook is the alternative form of spoon hook.

Meaning of spoon hook

Noun

spoon hook (plural spoon hooks)

  1. Synonym of spoon lure.
    • When a pickerel seizes a spoon hook it is either well hooked or lost at the moment of contact, as the fish knows at once that it has made a mistake, and will get rid of the combination of steel and other ingredients if possible.1898, Forest and Stream - Volume 50
    Synonyms:
    spoon lure

Forms of spoon-hook

pluralspoon-hooks

Questions about spoon-hook

What is spoon-hook the alternative form of?
Spoon-hook is the alternative form of spoon hook.

Words near spoon-hook in the dictionary

  1. spoon-drifts
  2. spoon-fed
  3. spoon-feed
  4. spoon-feeding
  5. spoon-feeds
  6. spoon-hook
  7. spoon-hooks
  8. spoon-meat
  9. spoon-meats
  10. spoon-winged lacewing
  11. spoon-winged lacewings

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