spoonhook

English

Noun

spoonhook (plural spoonhooks)

1. 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.