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单词 spiller
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spillern.1

Brit. /ˈspɪlə/, U.S. /ˈspɪlər/
Etymology: < spill v. + -er suffix1.
One who sheds or spills; esp. a shedder of blood.
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the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > bloodshedder
shedderc1388
bloodsheddera1425
spiller1530
bloodsucker1539
bloodletter1674
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [noun] > action of scattering or becoming scattered > one who or that which scatters
spreader?c1475
spiller1530
scatterer1535
disseminator1777
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 266/2 Schedar, a spyller, respandevr.
1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 137 Blouds wilfull spiller seld doth mercie finde.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Respandeur A shedder, a spiller.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. at Blood A spiller of Bloud, een bloed-storter.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Shedder A spiller; one who sheds.
1775– in J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. ; and later Dicts.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 2/1 A mighty hunter, a spiller of life-blood.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spillern.2

Etymology: Alteration of speller n.3
Obsolete exc. archaic.
A branchlet on a deer's horn.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > male > [noun] > body and parts > antler > branch > on hind part of
espelers1486
speller1575
spiller1590
1590 T. Cokayne Treat. Hunting D j Some [bucks]..are plaine palmed without any aduauncers, with long spillers out behinde.
1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 62 Such silly coxcombs..deserve to wear such branch'd horns, such spilters [sic] and trochings on their heads, as that goodly Stagg bears.
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Spillers, the small Branches shooting out from the flat Parts of a Buck's Horn at the Top.
1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom IV. 85 Additional advancers and spillers, or snags on the anterior or posterior parts of the palm.
1864 Reader 23 Jan. 112/3 The spillers into which the palm divides were directed exteriorly, as in the reindeer and the fallow-deer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

spillern.3

Brit. /ˈspɪlə/, U.S. /ˈspɪlər/, Irish English /ˈspɪlər/
Forms: Also 1800s spillard ( spilliard).
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
Chiefly Cornish dialect, Irish English, and North American.
1. A long fishing-line provided with a number of hooks; a trawl-line.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line
boulter1602
spiller1602
bulter1769
trot-line1826
spillet1832
bultow1858
trot1858
trawl1864
set line1865
trawl-line1867
outline1890
trat-line1894
outlier1904
trout-line1912
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31 In harbor they 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 bayt.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 31v This Spiller they sincke in the Sea.
1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 The line and spillards are the modes of fishing chiefly practised.
1851 Voy. Mauritius iv. 160 A line some hundred yards in length, from which depend shorter lines, like an Irish ‘spiller’.
1875 Zoologist 10 4500 A specimen of the torpedo..caught on spillers (hook and line)..near Lamorna [in Cornwall].
attributive.1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 The long line, hand line, and spillard fishing grounds.1900 C. 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 attributive.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > seine-net > small net inside
tuck-net1520
tuck1602
tuck-seine1825
spiller1884
1884 Bull. U.S. National Mus. 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.
a1891 in Nova Scotian use ( Cent. Dict. ).
1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/1 Supplementing the spring and autumn mackerel fishery by line and spiller seine and trammel with ordinary trawlings.

Derivatives

spiller v. (intransitive) to fish with spillers.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with hook > with number of hooks
scratch1659
spiller1836
otter1861
paternoster1891
1836 1st Rep. Irish Fisheries 151 Long line fishing, which is a kind of spillarding, is generally practised in hookers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spillern.4

Brit. /ˈspɪlə/, U.S. /ˈspɪlər/
Etymology: < spill n.1 + -er suffix1.
= spill n.1 2a.
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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > material for igniting > [noun] > match, spill, or taper for lighting
wax tapera1398
match1519
brimstone match1594
card match1654
spunk1755
light1787
spill1821
lighter1828
candle-paper1829
fidibus1829
Promethean1829
sulphur-match1830
pipelight1842
candle-lighter1855
kitchen match1862
spiller1936
1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind 71 Pork took a long spiller from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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