Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who spills.

    an attacker who sheds or spills blood

  2. A party who is liable for spillage, particularly of oil or waste, in a body of water.

  3. A square chamber that serves as the section of an industrial fishing net from which captured fish can easily be moved to a fishing boat.

Origin

From Middle English spiller, from spill + -er.

From Middle English spiller, from spill + -er.

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Forms

plural: spillers
Singularspiller
Pluralspillers

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an attacker who sheds or spills blood:shedder
  • a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys):trawltrawl linesetlinetrotline

Word family

2 related words
Relatedspill

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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