[syn: trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Spiller \Spill"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, spills.
[1913 Webster]
2. A kind of fishing line with many hooks; a boulter.
[1913 Webster] Spillet fishing
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
spiller
n 1: an attacker who sheds or spills blood; "a great hunter and
spiller of blood" [syn: shedder, spiller]
2: a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks
attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn:
trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline]