spoil
/spɔɪl/ noun C2- Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
- 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.
Plural spoils
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“I am never hungry,” he said, “and it is a lucky thing I am not, for my mouth is only painted, and if I should cut a hole in it so I could eat, the straw I am stuffed with would come out, and that would spoil the shape of my head.”
When he returned home after a good day’s sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil.
Then said the Wolf: “May no friend of mine ever be in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the appetite.”
The Ass carefully divided the spoil into three equal shares and modestly requested the two others to make the first choice.
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