meaning of spill
1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
2. A slender piece of anything.
3. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
4. A metallic rod or pin.
5. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
6. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
7. A little sum of money.
8. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
9. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
10. 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.
11. 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 anothers blood, or his own blood.
12. 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.
13. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
14. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
15. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc. ; to inlay.
16. spill register spilling spin Equivalent to buzz. More common among C and Unix programmers. [Jargon File] spiral model
17. a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the
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Related Words
spill | spill out | spill over | spill the beans | spillage | spillane | spilled | spiller | spillet | spilliard | spillikin | spillikins | spilling | spillover | spillway |
