LekhoriLekhoriTo strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of arms or armour.
To strip or deprive (someone) of possessions; to rob, despoil.
All that herde hym wer amased and sayde: ys nott this he that spoylled them whych called on this name in Jerusalem?
To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.
From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliāre (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).
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The act of taking plunder from an enemy or victim; spoliation, pillage, rapine.
This countrey ſwarmes with vile outragious men, That liue by rapine and by lawleſſe ſpoile, Fit ſouldiers for the wicked Tamburlaine.
Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings. Such material could be utilised somewhere else.
In view of the decline in freight traffic, it was strange to hear from Mr. Lambert that there is "a continuing problem of supplying, particularly for the civil engineer, the number of wagons required for carrying construction materials and spoil for various works."