English Dictionary

spill

/spɪl/

noun

(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped. / A fall or stumble. / A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.

I accidentally had a spill while carrying the tray.

意味（1）

(countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.

意味（2）

A fall or stumble.

The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week.

意味（3）

A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.

Kit froze with the pipe between his teeth, the relit spill pressed to the weed within it.

意味（4）

A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.

意味（5）

A metallic rod or pin.

意味（6）

(mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

意味（7）

(sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

意味（8）

(obsolete) A small sum of money.

Spill or Sportule for the same from the credulous Laity

意味（9）

(Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.