spoonhook
English
Noun
spoonhook (plural spoonhooks)
- Alternative form of spoon hook
- 1916, Emerson Hough, Let Us Go Afield, page 77:
- He caught six or eight fine connies on a stout hand line and spoonhook, simply by throwing the spoonhook out as far as he could and pulling it in hand over hand.
- 1923, Dietrich Lange, Good Times in the Woods, page 127:
- Early in the season, they take the spoonhook freely, but by the middle of July or the first of August they retire into deep water.
- 1928, Fins, Feathers and Fur, page 242:
- The carp had, in some time past, swallowed a No. 4 spoonhook.