Spill

1. One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
2. A slender piece of anything.
3. 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.
4. A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc.
5. A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
6. To destroy; to kill; to put an end to.
7. To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
8. A metallic rod or pin.
9. To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted.
10. To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
11. To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste.
12. A little sum of money.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.