Spoom

Alternative forms

• spoon

Origin

Probably a variant of spume ("foam").

Full definition of spoom

Verb

1. (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
• 17th century: Samuel PepysWe might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
• 17th century: John DrydenWhen virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
  My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.