v (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
v (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
v (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
v To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
v (obsolete, intransitive) To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.
v (transitive) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
v (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cause to be thrown from a mount, a carriage, etc.
v To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
v (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
v (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
v (transitive, intransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
v (of a knot) To come undone.
n (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
n A fall or stumble.
n A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
n A slender piece of anything.
n A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile.
n A metallic rod or pin.
n (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
n (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
n (obsolete) A small sum of money.
n (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.