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- noun Obsolete spelling of
spoonful .
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Examples
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"Likewise for sprains, rub it in; and for the cholic, a great spooneful in the hour."
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-- Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack, and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion.
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-- Take the flowers of lilly of the valley and distil them in sack, and drink a spooneful or two as there is occasion.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"Likewise for sprains, rub it in; and for the cholic, a great spooneful in the hour."
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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