spoom

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Verb

spoom (spooms, present participle spooming; past and past participle spoomed)

1. (nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
   • 17th century: Samuel Pepys

     We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.

   • 17th century: John Dryden

     When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.

Noun

spoom (plural spooms)

1. A sorbet containing fruit juice

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