Spoil

Definitions

1. Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
2. The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
   archaic
3. Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Thoſe thouſand horſe shall ſweat with martiall ſpoyle Of conquered kingdomes, and of Cities ſackt, […]”

“This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.”

“In view⟳ of the decline⟳ in freight traffic, it was strange to hear⟳ from Mr. Lambert that there is "a continuing problem of supplying, particularly for the civil engineer, the number⟳ of wagons required for carrying construction materials and spoil⟳ for various works."”

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