Vocabulary : Spook to Spoondrift

Spook : A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin. ;; The chimaera.
Spool : A piece of cane or red with a knot at each end, or a hollow cylinder of wood with a ridge at each end, used to wind thread or yarn upon. ;; To wind on a spool or spools.
Spooled : of Spool
Spooler : One who, or that which, spools.
Spooling : of Spool

Spoom : To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
Spoon : A wooden club with a lofted face. ;; To catch by fishing with a spoon bait. ;; In croquet, golf, etc., to push or shove (a ball) with a lifting motion, instead of striking with an audible knock. ;; To fish with a spoon bait. ;; In croquet, golf, etc., to spoon a ball. ;; See Spoom. ;; An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. ;; Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait. ;; Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. ;; To take up in, or as in, a spoon. ;; To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.
Spoonbill : Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip. ;; The shoveler. See Shoveler, 2. ;; The ruddy duck. See under Ruddy. ;; The paddlefish.
Spoon-billed : Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end.
Spoondrift : Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

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