Lexicographical Neighbors of Spillings
Literary usage of Spillings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Village London: The Story of Greater London by Edward Walford (1884)
"In getting these articles on shore, it was necessary the revenue officers should
connive, which they did, and the quantity of Spillings was, of course, ..."
2. The gold of Chickaree, by S. and A. Warner by Susan Bogert Warner, Anna Bartlett Warner, James Nisbet & Co, Murray and Gibb (1877)
"Santa Clans' spillings out of his sleigh.' ' Spillings !' echoed the lady. '
What must the sleigh load have been!' ' Oh, that's the way these people do ..."
3. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1824)
"... and the other Part shall be allowed him towards his Waste and Spillings in
making Security for ei- the said Assays of Silver Plate); and every Assayer ..."
4. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1814)
"... spillings or drainings of sugar remaining in the hold and between decks after
the cargo was discharged, and which were generally claimed as perquisites. ..."
5. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Sperling, Sperlings, Spilling, Spillings, Spur lin g, Spillin. ... The s in
Sperlings and Spillings is the genitive, as in Williams, Jones, Simmonds, &c. ..."
6. The Criminal Recorder: Or, Biographical Sketches of Notorious Public Characters by A. F. (1804)
"The connivance, however, of the revenue officers became necessary to get these
sweepings on shore, and the quantity of spillings were gradually increased, ..."
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