Spill

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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