Thesaurus

(n) : an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle; an implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon

(v) : to turn to port and starboard erratically for short periods of time, as a sailboat does when heading nearly into a wind that varies direction slightly; (slang; late 19th-early 20th century; of people) to have a nervously ambivalent romantic rendez-vous, as young people had during the age of chaperones, from turning one's head toward and away from the other person as the sailing ship did