Word Meaning

Meaning of spills

- A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
- A slender piece of anything.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
- One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A little sum of money.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
- To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour.
- To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood.
- To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
- To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.

Crossword clue for spills

- Accident
- Accident with liquid
- Oil leak
- Drops liquid
- Overflows
- Sheds blood
- Slops