Word Meanings - SPILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. 2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically: -- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. A metallic rod or pin. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. One of

Additional info about word: SPILL

1. A bit of wood split off; a splinter. 2. A slender piece of anything. Specifically: -- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile. A metallic rod or pin. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground. 3. A little sum of money. Ayliffe.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPILL)

• Shed
• Emit
• diffuse
• cast
• drop
• scatter
• spill
• pour
• throw off

Related words: (words related to SPILL)

• SPILLET FISHING; 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.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• DIFFUSER
  One who, or that which, diffuses.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• SPILLWAY
  A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.
• SPILLER
  1. One who, or that which, spills. 2. A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
• DIFFUSENESS
  The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• DIFFUSELY
  In a diffuse manner.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SPILLIKIN
  See SPILIKIN
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• VESPILLO
  One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. Sir T. Browne.