Spoil or spoils:
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Plunder taken from an enemy or victim
*Material (such as rock, earth or other
overburden
In mining, overburden (also called waste or spoil) is the material that lies above an area that lends itself to economical exploitation, such as the rock, soil, and ecosystem that lies above a coal seam or ore body. Overburden is distinct from tai ...
) removed during:
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excavation
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mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic ...
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dredging
*An Australian rules football tactic, see
One percenter (Australian rules football)#Spoil
See also
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Spoil tip
A spoil tip (also called a boney pile, culm bank, gob pile, waste tip or bing) is a pile built of accumulated ''spoil'' – waste material removed during mining. These waste materials are typically composed of shale, as well as smaller quant ...
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Spoilage (disambiguation)
Spoilage, spoiling or (making something) spoiled may refer to:
* Spoiled child, a derogatory term aimed at children who exhibit behavioral problems from being overindulged by their parents.
*Decomposition, the process by which organic substances ar ...
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Spoiler (disambiguation)
Spoiler is a security vulnerability on modern computer central processing units that use speculative execution. It exploits side-effects of speculative execution to improve the efficiency of Rowhammer and other related memory and cache attacks. A ...
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Spolia (disambiguation)
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