Spooms vs Spools - What's the difference?
spooms | spools |
(spoom)
(nautical) To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.
* 17th century : Samuel Pepys
* 17th century : John Dryden
As verbs the difference between spooms and spools
is that spooms is third-person singular of spoom while spools is third-person singular of spool.As a noun spools is
plural of lang=en.spooms
English
Verb
(head)spoom
English
Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
- When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, / My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.