spile
1a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
a spout for conducting sap from the sugar maple.
a heavy wooden stake or pile.
Mining. forepole.
to stop up (a hole) with a spile or peg.
to furnish with a spigot or spout, as for drawing off a liquid.
to tap by means of a spile.
to furnish, strengthen, or support with spiles or piles.
Origin of spile
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How to use spile in a sentence
Mo' lak spile chillen, that dun had ther way so long they cuden' give in, speshly your par.
That Old-Time Child, Roberta | Sophie Fox SeaYou see the Elmwood parson takes all our eggs, and wife thinks 'twouldn't do to spile a payin' customer.
The Incendiary | W. A. (William Augustine) LeahyYoull spile usbut I know a lot o folks that might learn manners from you two boys.
Erskine Dale--Pioneer | John FoxAn' don't you spile it in the cooking or I'll use the gad on you; an' if you holler or cut that cord I'll kill ye.
Two Little Savages | Ernest Thompson SetonHe did this on each spile, and they put the whole pot into the water.
The Spell of the White Sturgeon | James Arthur Kjelgaard
British Dictionary definitions for spile
/ (spaɪl) /
a heavy timber stake or pile
US and Canadian a spout for tapping sap from the sugar maple tree
a plug or spigot
to provide or support with a spile
US to tap (a tree) with a spile
Northern English dialect a splinter
Origin of spile
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