SPILLER

trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline

(noun) a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys)

shedder, spiller

(noun) an attacker who sheds or spills blood; “a great hunter and spiller of blood”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

spiller (plural spillers)

One who spills.

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

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.

Anagrams

• Pillers, pillers

Proper noun

Spiller (plural Spillers)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Spiller is the 6,304th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 5,418 individuals. Spiller is most common among White (66.65%) and Black (27.56%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Pillers, pillers

Source: Wiktionary


Spill"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, spills.

2. A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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