spilter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From spill (noun).
Noun
[edit]spilter (plural spilters)
- (obsolete) Any of the small branches on a stag's head.
- 1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton:
- The little furrowes that run a long the head of a deer; The spilters, or broches of a deers head
References
[edit]“spilter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.