Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who spills or sheds: as, a spiller of blood.
  • noun A trawlline; a bultow.
  • noun In the mackerel-fishery, a seine inserted into a larger seine to take out the fish, as over a rocky bottom where the larger seine cannot be hauled ashore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, spills.
  • noun A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Agent noun of the verb, to spill; one who spills.
  • noun law A party who is liable for spillage, particularly of oil or waste, in a body of water.
  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an attacker who sheds or spills blood
  • noun a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)

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Examples

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  • This is what brings the rats out: one gut spiller can bring down 10, all of whom will rush to spill their own.

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  • Basically, if you have the data to show that this person or these people got sick because of this exposure the the spiller is actually required to do this long term medial surveillance and help the people, pay for the people to get better.

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  • While the U.S. tries to cope with the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and wrangles with the spiller, British Petroleum, over the cost of clean-up and damage restitution, such environmental horrors are a long-running story in Nigeria.

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