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▪ I. spiller, n.1|ˈspɪlə(r)|
[f. spill v. + -er1.]
One who sheds or spills; esp. a shedder of blood.
1530Palsgr. 266/2 Schedar, a spyller, respandevr. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie 137 Blouds wilfull spiller seld doth mercie finde. 1611Cotgr., Respandeur, a shedder, a spiller. 1647Hexham i. s.v. Blood, A spiller of Bloud, een bloed-storter. 1755Johnson, Shedder, a spiller; one who sheds. 1775–in Ash and later Dicts. 1899Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 2/1 A mighty hunter, a spiller of life-blood.
▪ II. spiller, n.2 Obs. exc. arch.
[Alteration of speller3.]
A branchlet on a deer's horn.
1590Cokaine Treat. Hunting D j, Some [bucks]..are plaine palmed without any aduauncers, with long spillers out behinde. 1660Howell Parly of Beasts 62 Such silly coxcombs..deserve to wear such branch'd horns, such spilters [sic] and trochings on their heads, as that goodly Stagg bears. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Spillers, the small Branches shooting out from the flat Parts of a Buck's Horn at the Top. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier IV. 85 Additional advancers and spillers, or snags on the anterior or posterior parts of the palm. 1864Reader 23 Jan. 112/3 The spillers into which the palm divides were directed exteriorly, as in the reindeer and the fallow-deer.
▪ III. spiller, n.3 Chiefly Cornish dial., Ir., and Amer.|ˈspɪlə(r)|
Also 9 spillard (spilliard).
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A long fishing-line provided with a number of hooks; a trawl-line.
1602Carew Cornwall 31 b, In Harbor Eeles are taken mostly by Spillers made of a Cord..to which diuers lesser and shorter are tyed at a little distance, and to each of these a hooke is fastened with a bayt. Ibid., This Spiller they sincke in the Sea. 18361st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 The line and spillards are the modes of fishing chiefly practised. 1851Voy. Mauritius iv. 160 A line some hundred yards in length, from which depend shorter lines, like an Irish ‘spiller’. 1875Zoologist 2nd Ser. X. 4500 A specimen of the torpedo..caught on spillers (hook and line)..near Lamorna [in Cornwall].
attrib.18361st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 The long line, hand line, and spillard fishing grounds. 1900C. Lee Cynthia 81 A group of men..baiting spiller-hooks with cuttle.
2. ‘In the mackerel-fishery, a seine inserted into a larger seine to take out the fish.’ Also attrib.
1884Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum No. 27. 998 Mackerel pocket or spiller... The pocket was introduced into the mackerel-seine fishery in 1878 for holding the surplus catch which would otherwise spoil before being cleaned and salted. a1891in Nova Scotian use (Cent. Dict.). 1891Pall Mall G. 10 Sept. 4/1 Supplementing the spring and autumn mackerel fishery by line and spiller seine and trammel with ordinary trawlings.
Hence spiller v. intr., to fish with spillers.
18361st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 Long line fishing, which is a kind of spillarding, is generally practised in hookers.
▪ IV. spiller, n.4|ˈspɪlə(r)|
[f. spill n.1 + -er1.]
= spill n.1 2 a.
1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind 71 Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall. |