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▪ I. ˈspilling, vbl. n.1
[f. spill v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of destroying, spoiling, or marring.
a1122O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 999, Ne beheold hit nan þing..buton folces ᵹeswinc & feos spilling. c1440Promp. Parv. 469 Spyllynge, or lesynge or schendynge, confusio, deperdicio. 1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 270 For spilling of his hous in Striuiling be the Abbot of Vnresoun. 1600Gowrie Consp. A iv, Commanding him..that hee should not spare for spilling of his horse. 1647Hexham i, A spilling, spoiling, or marring.
†2. Wasting; wasteful employment. Obs.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 5425 Wan þay were to-gadre y-met, Spillyng of speche þar was gret y-mad bytwene hem þanne.
3. a. The action of causing to flow or run out wastefully; shedding; effusion.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxix. 11 What profit is in spillynge of my blode? 1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 19 The battale thair so felloune was, And sua richt gret spilling of blud. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. v. 1631 He is cause of spillyng of mekel gentel blood. 1483Cath. Angl. 355/1 A Spyllynge, perfusio. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1236 One justly weeps; the other takes in hand No cause, but company, of her drops spilling. 1623Cockeram ii, A Spilling commonly of blood, effusion. 1844Tupper Crock of G. xlviii. 314 About a thimbleful of water, after fifty spillings, arrived safely in a tumbler.
b. With advs., as out, over. Also transf.
1883E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones 36 The daily spilling-out from the doors of family life. 1909J. Stuart Burma thro' Cent. i. 9 The spilling over from the kingdom..of Yunnan probably began fully two thousand years ago.
c. The action of causing air to escape from a parachute; also such an escape of air.
1930Flight 11 July 784/2 As usual, he judged his distance perfectly, and by judicious ‘spilling’ landed right in front of the club enclosure. 1951Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 15 Spilling, the escape of air, with local partial collapse, at the periphery of a parachute canopy, caused either by the instability of the parachute or by side⁓slipping.
4. pl. That which is spilt.
1772–3Act 13 Geo. III, c. 52 §6 The other four grains shall be allowed him towards his waste and spillings in making the said assays. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames iii. 99 The evil practice of staving Casks..to enlarge the quantity of spillings of Sugar, Coffee, &c. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Passion & Princ. vi, Sundry circular deposits of ale and porter, the accidental spillings of last night's carouse. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge xv, They trace the spillings of full pitchers on the heated ground.
5. attrib. and Comb., as spilling-place; spilling-line, Naut. (see quots. 1769, 1882); spilling-staysail, a sail controlled by a spilling-line.
1706Stevens Span. Dict. i, Derramadero, a scattering, or spilling place. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 314 High o'er the lee yard-arm the canvas swell'd; By spilling lines embraced, with brails confined. 1769― Dict. Marine (1780), Spilling-lines,..ropes fixed occasionally to the main⁓sail and fore-sail of a ship,..for reefing or furling them more conveniently. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast. xxxi, Reef⁓tackles were rove to the courses, and spilling lines to the topsails. 1851Kipping Sailmaking (ed. 2) 5 There are..sometimes a mizen-royal-staysail, and main-spilling-staysail. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 125 The spilling lines..are small pieces of rope fitted on the fore side of the sail for picking up the reef line in reefing topsails.
▪ II. ˈspilling, vbl. n.2 Min.
[f. spill n.1 4.]
(See quot.)
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Spilling, Corn[wall], a process of driving or sinking through very loose ground. |