spoon-hook

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Noun

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spoon-hook (plural spoon-hooks)

  1. Alternative form of spoon hook
    • 1991, John Charles Van Dyke, The open spaces: incidents of nights and days under the blue sky, page 185:
      This was done with a rod and a small spoon-hook, and the favorable spots were whipped from the end of the canoe, just as one would cast for trout in a lake.
    • 2010, Nick Lyons, The Best Fishing Stories Ever Told, page 143:
      On the end is a monster spoon-hook, gaily ornamented with gaudy feathers.
    • 2017, William Stoddard, Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White:
      There had been a good deal of discussion of the fishing question between the two young friends, for Two Arrows knew nothing of the powers of a "spoon-hook."