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