spilter

English

Etymology

From spill (noun).

Noun

spilter (plural spilters)

  1. (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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