Definition of poon

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Poon (n.) A name for several East Indian, or their wood, used for the masts and spars of vessels, as Calophyllum angustifolium, C. inophullum, and Sterculia foetida; -- called also peon..

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Harpoon :: Harpoon (n.) A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, sharpened at both edges, and is thrown by hand, or discharged from a gun..
Lampoonry :: Lampoonry (n.) The act of lampooning; a lampoon, or lampoons..
Squib :: Squib (a.) A writer of lampoons.
Peon :: Peon (n.) See Poon.
Bowl :: Bowl (n.) The hollow part of a thing; as, the bowl of a spoon..
Lance :: Lance (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen..
Lampooned :: Lampooned (imp. & p. p.) of Lampoo.
Tampoon :: Tampoon (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Tablespoonfuls :: Tablespoonfuls (pl. ) of Tablespoonfu.
Poonga Oil :: Poonga oil () A kind of oil used in India for lamps, and for boiling with dammar for pitching vessels. It is pressed from the seeds of a leguminous tree (Pongamia glabra)..
Spoony :: Spoonwort (n.) Scurvy grass.
Spooney :: Spoondrift (n.) Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift..
Lampooning :: Lampooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lampoo.
Spooney :: Spooneye (pl. ) of Spoone.
Spoonbill :: Spoonbill (n.) Any one of several species of wading birds of the genera Ajaja and Platalea, and allied genera, in which the long bill is broadly expanded and flattened at the tip..
Billethead :: Billethead (n.) A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off..
Spoonbill :: Spoon (v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love..
Harpooning :: Harpooning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Harpoo.
Squib :: Squib (a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay..
Spoon-billed :: Spoonbill (n.) The paddlefish.
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