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- English Word Spill Definition A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- English Word Spill Definition One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- English Word Spill Definition A little sum of money.
- English Word Spill Definition To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- English Word Spill Definition To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- English Word Spill Definition To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- English Word Spill Definition To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
- English Word Spill Definition To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
- English Word Spill Definition To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- English Word Spill Definition To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- English Word Spill Definition To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
- English Word Spilled Definition of Spill
- English Word Spiller Definition One who, or that which, spills.
- English Word Spiller Definition A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
- English Word Spillet fishing Definition Alt. of Spilliard fishing
- English Word Spilliard fishing Definition A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
- English Word Spillikin Definition See Spilikin.
- English Word Spilling Definition of Spill
- English Word Spilling Definition of Spill
- English Word Spillway Definition A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.