What is "spoon bit"

Spoon \Spoon\, n. [OE. spon, AS. sp[=o]n, a chip; akin to D. spaan, G. span, Dan. spaan, Sw. sp[*a]n, Icel. sp['a]nn, sp['o]nn, a chip, a spoon. [root]170. Cf. Span-new.]

1. An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.

   ``Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend,'' thus heard I say.
   --Chaucer.

   He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
   --Shak.

2. Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.

3. Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. [Slang]
   --Hood.

4. (Golf) A wooden club with a lofted face.
   --Encyc. of Sport.

   Spoon bait (Fishing), a lure used in trolling, consisting of a glistening metallic plate shaped like the bowl of a spoon with a fishhook attached.

   Spoon bit, a bit for boring, hollowed or furrowed along one side.

   Spoon net, a net for landing fish.

   Spoon oar. See under Oar.