Definitions for spontoon

spontoon spon·toon

Spelling: [spon-toon]
IPA: /spɒnˈtun/

Spontoon is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in spontoon (nnooopst).

Definitions for spontoon

noun

  1. a shafted weapon having a pointed blade with crossbar at its base, used by infantry officers in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Origin of spontoon

1590-1600; French esponton Italian spuntone, equivalent to s- ex-1 + puntone kind of weapon (literally, pointed object) (punt(o) point<

Examples for spontoon

I must send spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connexions.

spontoon' (to an elderly military-looking servant out of livery),'take away these things, and answer the bell yourself, if I ring.

The wolves which had been feasting on these carcasses were very fat, and so gentle that one of them was killed with a spontoon.

When Balbi wrote that his walls were hung with pictures of saints, it became a question of conveying the spontoon to him.

My mercer had his spontoon in his hand, as if he measured his cloth by that implement, instead of a legitimate yard.

Holding his spontoon ready, but concealed under his coat, he stepped to the side of the door.

Lady Emily is to be your nurse, and spontoon and I your attendants.

We have taken measures to exclude all servants but spontoon, who is as true as steel.'

I must send spontoon to see what she is about; he will find her out among the old regimental connections.

Word Value for spontoon
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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