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Spoom

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(spŌm)
v. i.1.(Naut.) To be driven steadily and swiftly, as before a strong wind; to be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles.
When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale,
My heaving wishes help to fill the sail.
- Dryden.


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