Meaning of Spill | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mess of something that has been dropped.
   countable
2. A fall or stumble.
3. A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
4. A slender piece of anything.
5. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
6. A metallic rod or pin.
7. A spillikin.
8. A splinter caught in the skin.
   Shropshire
9. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
10. The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
11. A small sum of money.
    obsolete
12. A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
    Australian

Equivalents

Examples

“The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.”

““In a moment, he has torn the letter into long thin strips, and rolling them up into spills he thrusts them hurriedly in amongst the other spills in the vase on the mantle-piece.””

“Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.”

“A tool with which to extract the spills from the pile.”

“Spill or Sportule for the same from the credulous Laity”

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