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单词 spilling
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spillingn.1

Etymology: < spill v. + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspilling.
1. The action of destroying, spoiling, or marring.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [noun] > damaging or injuring
spillinga1122
impairment1340
marring1357
damaginga1400
defacingc1400
spoiling1479
violation?c1500
facingc1540
deface1556
defacement1561
infection1563
spoil1575
endamageance1594
damagement1603
mismaking1615
empoisonmenta1626
vitiation1635
vitiating1669
spoilage1815
savaging1858
spoliation1867
mucking about1969
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 999 Ne beheold hit nan þing..buton folces geswinc & feos spilling.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 469 Spyllynge, or lesynge or schendynge, confusio, deperdicio.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 270 For spilling of his hous in Striuiling be the Abbot of Vnresoun.
1600 Gowrie Consp. A iv Commanding him..that hee should not spare for spilling of his horse.
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. A spilling, spoiling, or marring.
2. Wasting; wasteful employment. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [noun] > waste
waste1297
spillingc1380
consuminga1538
profusion1545
lavishing1574
consumption1613
lavishment1630
frittering1795
uneconomicalness1817
wastry1830
wastage1885
ineconomy1897
haemorrhaging1967
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 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.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > letting out > spilling
spillinga1340
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxix. 11 What profit is in spillynge of my blode?
c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine v. 1631 He is cause of spillyng of mekel gentel blood.
1483 Cath. Angl. 355/1 A Spyllynge, perfusio.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiii. 19 The battale thair so felloune was, And sua richt gret spilling of blud.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. I2v One iustlie weepes, the other takes in hand No cause, but companie of her drops spilling . View more context for this quotation
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii A Spilling commonly of blood, effusion.
1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold xlviii. 314 About a thimbleful of water, after fifty spillings, arrived safely in a tumbler.
b. With adverbs, as out, over. Also transferred.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > of something confined > spilling out
spilling1883
spillage1934
slopping1945
sloppage1962
1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 36 The daily spilling-out from the doors of family life.
1909 J. 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.
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society > travel > air or space travel > parachuting > [noun] > causing air to escape from parachute
spilling1930
1930 Flight 11 July 784/2 As usual, he judged his distance perfectly, and by judicious ‘spilling’ landed right in front of the club enclosure.
1951 Gloss. 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. plural. That which is spilt.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of spilling or that which is spilled > [noun]
spiltha1616
spillings1772
spilla1849
sloppage1884
spillage1934
1772–3 Act 13 Geo. III c. 52 §6 The other four grains shall be allowed him towards his waste and spillings in making the said assays.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames iii. 99 The evil practice of staving Casks..to enlarge the quantity of spillings of Sugar, Coffee, &c.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 47 Sundry circular deposits of ale and porter, the accidental spillings of last night's carouse.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xv. 13 They trace the spillings of full pitchers on the heated ground.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as spilling-place.
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1706 J. Stevens New Spanish Dict. i Derramadero, a scattering, or spilling place.
C2.
spilling-line n. Nautical (see quots. 17692, 1882).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for shortening sail > reefing lines
reef line1711
reef tackle1711
point1769
reefpoint1769
spilling-line1769
reef hank1794
reefing point1847
1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 64 High o'er the lee yard-arm the canvas swell'd: By spilling lines embrac'd, with brails confin'd.
1769 W. Falconer Universal 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.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 372 Reef-tackles were rove to the courses, and spilling-lines to the top-sails.
1882 G. S. Nares 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.
spilling-staysail n. Nautical a sail controlled by a spilling-line.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a stay > other staysails
mainstaysail1669
storm-staysail1850
spilling-staysail1851
queen staysail1922
queen's staysail1926
1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 5 There are..sometimes a mizen-royal-staysail, and main-spilling-staysail.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

spillingn.2

Etymology: < spill n.1 4.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈspilling.
Mineralogy.
(See quot. 1881.)
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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 178 Spilling, Corn[wall], a process of driving or sinking through very loose ground.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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