spoil

To 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 do her dye (quoth Vna) were despight, / And shame t'auenge so weake an enimy; / But spoile her of her scarlot robe, and let her fly.

To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.

To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

No man can enter into a strong man’s house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man.

They must likewise endeavour to be careful in looking after the rest of the Servants, that every one perform their duty in their several places, that they keep good hours in their up-rising and lying down, and that no Goods be either spoiled or embezelled.

To ruin; to damage in such a way as to make undesirable or unusable.

All this sun spoils me for vacations in the far North.

Spiritual pride […] spoils so many graces.

Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

Thoſe thouſand horſe shall ſweat with martiall ſpoyle Of conquered kingdomes, and of Cities ſackt, […]

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."