spilltimet (spiltim)

[ME. spille -tyme; A spend our that spende mot other a spille - tyme , Other beggest thy bylyue a-boute at menne hacches. Piers Plowman (C), vi. 28. spill-trough (spil'trôf), n. In bra -founding, a trough against which the inclined flask rests while the metal is poured from the crucible, and which catches metal that may be spilled. spillway (spil'wā), n. A pa age for surplus water from a dam. In wet weather the water in the two reservoirs flows away through the spillways or waste weirs beside the dams, and runs down the river into Croton Lake. The Century , XXXIX. 207.