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Spoor vs Spoom - What's the difference?

spoor | spoom |

As verbs the difference between spoor and spoom

is that spoor is to track an animal by following its spoor while spoom is (nautical) to sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted.

As a noun spoor

is the track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal.

spoor

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The track, trail, droppings or scent of an animal
  • * 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
    • Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.
  • *1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter VIII
  • *:Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To track an animal by following its spoor

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    spoom

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.