Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fish-hook with a spoon attached; an anglers' spoon.
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Examples
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And once, on a spoon-hook trolling a hundred yards astern, we caught a snake-like fish, over three feet in length and not more than three inches in diameter, with four fangs in his jaw.
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And once, on a spoon-hook trolling a hundred yards astern, we caught a snake-like fish, over three feet in length and not more than three inches in diameter, with four fangs in his jaw.
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The next fall, while going along the coast, he saw a pack of white foxes approaching, and having with him neither a trap nor a gun, he thought of his spoon-hook.
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Jointing up the rod and affixing the reel, Tim Reardon ran out his line, tied on the bright spoon-hook and began trolling.
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In the early hours of a July morning, a little way up from Ellison's dam, a youth stood up to his middle among the lily pads, wielding a long, jointed bamboo pole, and trolling a spoon-hook past the outer fringe of the flat, green leaves.
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He unwound a line from a reel, attached a spoon-hook, cast it over and began to troll astern, far in the wake of the canoe.
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It seems that he always carried a spoon-hook, and went at once to what he rightly judged the best place, a pool at the junction of the two rivers.
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I took a good-sized spoon-hook, with three hundred feet of line attached to it, just as I had used it in Lake
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I baited the spoon-hook with a live little fish the pilot had procured, and gave her the line.
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a spoon-bait, or spoon-hook, the first he had ever seen; and as he thought it a very wonderful thing, he always carried it about with him.
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