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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6 June 2025

PUNGENCY

(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”


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According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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