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imp. & p. p. of Spill. Spilled.
of Spill
Alt. of Spilliard fishing
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.
SPILL
n.
The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
n.
One who, or that which, spills.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
v. t.
To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
v. t.
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.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. i.
To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
See Spilikin.
n.
A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
v. i.
To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
n.
A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
v. t.
To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
v. t.
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.
imp. & p. p.
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