spoom Meaning, Definition & Usage

Spoom intransitive verb
Etymology
Probably fr. spum foam. See Spume.
Definitions
  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. Written also spoon.
    When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. Dryden.

Webster 1913