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spill-|spɪl|
the stem of spill v. in combination.
†1. In the sense ‘that spoils, mars, destroys, or wastes’, as spill-berry, spill-bread, spill-cause, spill-good, spill-love, spill-pain (= bread), spill-soul, spill-time. Obs.
c1563Thersites in Four Old Pl. (1848) 82 The spere of spanysshe *spylbery sprente wt spiteful spottes.
c1320in Rel. Antiq. I. 122 My wyf that shulde be;..Hue clepeth me *spille-bred.
1566Pasquine in Traunce 64 Doe they use Bartolus, and Baldus, and such other *spill causes to set men togither by the eares?
1626Minsheu 683/1 *Spill-good, vi[de] Spend-thrift.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 336 [Pride] sente forth..his spye *spille-loue, one speke-yuel⁓byhynde.
c1460Towneley Myst. xxiv. 124 Secundus tortor. *Spyll-payn in fayth I hight.
1591Fraunce C'tess Pembroke's Yuychurch i. C j, So sore inchaunted with *spill-soule spells.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vi. 28 An ydel man þow semest,..oþer a *spille-tyme.
2. dial. In the sense ‘spoilt’, as spill-wood.
1847Halliwell, Spilwood, refuse of wood, or wood spilt by the sawyers. South. 1852–83in Hampshire and Sussex glossaries.
3. In the sense ‘constructed for (or by) the passage of surplus water, for receiving overflow liquid, etc.’, as spill-back, spill-box, spill channel, spill stream, spill-trough, spill-water; spillbank (see quot. 1961). See also spillway.
1899F. H. King Irrigation & Drainage vi. 247 The depth of the water over the lip of the *spill-back.
1909H. M. Wilson Irrigation Engin. (ed. 6) xix. 560 The material brought up by these [buckets] is deposited on one of two endless belt-carriers running on booms which dump it on either *spillbank. 1961L. D. Stamp Gloss. Geogr. Terms 427/2 Spill-bank is the term used by British and Indian engineers engaged in river training for the bank of coarse alluvium spilled over by a river in flood (C. C. Inglis).
1899F. H. King Irrigation & Drainage vi. 245 The *spill-box..is, perhaps, as satisfactory a means for maintaining a nearly uniform head against..an opening as has yet been devised.
188819th Cent. Jan. 43 The Bhagirathi,..for centuries a mere *spill-stream from the parent Ganges.
1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 327 The flask..is put on the surface of the pouring or *spill-trough. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2268/1 Spill-trough, (Brass-founding), the trough against which the inclined flask rests while the metal is being poured from the crucible.
1852Burn Techn. Dict. ii. s.v., *Spill-water, réservoir, excavation pour recevoir les inondations d'une rivière. 1875Alex. Smith New Hist. Aberdeen i. 75 The Commissioners resolved to make..a spill-water to the south of the harbour.
4. In the sense ‘that empties by spilling’, as spillbucket.
1938L. MacNeice Earth Compels 20 Bric-a-brac Pick-a-back *Spillbucket Splits. |