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Meaning of spoom | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

spoomed spooming spooms spoon spoon out spoon-fed

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