Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A trolling-bait or spoon-bait, fashioned like the bowl of a spoon, with a hook or hooks at one end, and the line attached at the other.
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Examples
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Her eye had been caught by a gaudy red-feathered trolling-spoon and its polished brass disk.
Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker
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Sometimes he was spun helplessly on the end of his line like a trolling-spoon.
The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] Hulbert Footner 1911
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Sam busied himself with the trolling-spoon, but as soon as the last canoe was well beyond hearing he burst out:
The Silent Places 1904
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For middle-class fish, like bass, which would only rise to the fly during a brief and uncertain season, a trolling-spoon or an artificial minnow might be allowed.
Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892
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