I put a spell on you...

[venta]

Gosh. It's ages since we've had one of these. Words I use which no one else knows...

[Poll #1724258]

A perfectly respectable definition can be found here.

[Poll #1724259]

Edit: supplementary question. If it didn't mean what you thought, what did you think it meant?

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[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

Spills: thin strips of wood, about quarter inch wide and 6-8ins long, in various colours, kept in a spill jar in the hearth in the days of coal fires so that smokers could light cigarettes/pipes without striking a match. Also used to light candles/oil lamps/gas mantles (all of which we had when I was a tiddler).