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English
Etymology
From spill (noun).
Noun
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
“spilter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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