Meaning

• A mess of something that has been dropped.

• A fall or stumble.

  "The bruise is from a bad spill he had last week."

• A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.

• A slender piece of anything.

• One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

• (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.

• A small sum of money.

• (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.

Meaning

• To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.

  "I spilled some sticky juice on the kitchen floor."

• To spread out or fall out, as above.

  "Some sticky juice spilled onto the kitchen floor."

• To drop something that was intended to be caught.

• To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.

• To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste.

• To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.

• To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.

• 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.

• (Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.

• To reveal information to an uninformed party.

  "He spilled his guts out to his new psychologist."

• (of a knot). To come undone.