Etymology
Origin of spilth
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Spilth, spilth, n. spilling, anything spilt or poured out lavishly, excess of supply.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Gold and jewels I threw, Still he couched there perdue; I tempted his blood and his flesh, 20Hid in roses my mesh, Choicest cates and the flagon's best spilth: Still he kept to his filth.
From Browning's Shorter Poems by Franklin T. (Franklin Thomas) Baker
His foot slipped in the spilth of wine, and the huge body went down like an oak, his head striking one leg of the table.
From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell
Here all my life lies like a spilth of wine.
From Kentucky Poems by Madison J. Cawein
But enough of the stale spilth of bar-rooms.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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