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
We can't fall upon luck of any sort—good, bad or indifferent—that is where I'm broke and spiled and kilt hintirely.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles ReadeIn spite of all they've spiled, I'd be nigh $500 ahead o' the game if I could git out o' camp with what I've got in my sock.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroy"I've spiled seven collars and busted five collar buttons already," groaned Roarer, pausing in his struggle.
The Long Dim Trail | Forrestine C. HookerBook l'arnin' hain't spiled ye yet; your arms are good for suthin'.
Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas of New England | Harriet Beecher Stowe"And a mercy it was that he wasn't smashed to splinters, with spiled looks and half his limbses orf," she said.
The Opal Serpent | Fergus Hume
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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