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Definition of Spill out
1. Verb. Be disgorged. "The crowds spilled out into the streets"
Definition of Spill out
1. Verb. (&lit to spill out) ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive said of people) to exit (outside) in large quantities ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive said of emotions or feelings) to be released without constraint ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spill Out
Literary usage of Spill out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting by Alexander Mackay (1849)
"We did spill out, but it was only by dint of a good leap that we cleared the
hole, into which the fore- wheels had sunk up to the axletree. ..."
2. A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual by Myrta Lockett Avary (1903)
"You spill out." " Never mind that, so you get paid for your skiff. I am an old
sailor. ... Squaws spill out. Squaws git sick," he insisted. ..."
3. The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting by Alexander Mackay (1850)
"We did spill out, but it was only by dint of a good leap that we cleared the
hole, into which the fore- wheels had sunk up to the axletree. ..."
4. Ancient laws of Ireland by Ireland, John O'Donovan, Eugene O'Curry, William Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, William Maunsell Hennessy, Robert Atkinson (1901)
"... I spill (out, —abrogate ? ... where the meaning turn, is expressed by turn
upside down, and spill out (Î). ..."
5. Grammar and Dictionary of the Buluba-Lulua Language as Spoken in the Upper by William McCutchan Morrison (1906)
"... vi., to capsize, overflow, run over, spill out. ... vt., to pour out, capsize,
empty, spill out. ..."
6. Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators by Frederic Valerius Hetzel (1922)
"At 6 the resultant shows that more would spill out and at 7 the remaining material
would be thrown clear of the wheel and could be caught in a chute, ..."
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