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noun
1.
a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
2.
a spout for conducting sap from the sugar maple.
3.
a heavy wooden stake or pile.
4.
Mining. forepole.
verb (used with object)
5.
to stop up (a hole) with a spile or peg.
6.
to furnish with a spigot or spout, as for drawing off a liquid.
7.
to tap by means of a spile.
8.
to furnish, strengthen, or support with spiles or piles.
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Origin:
1505–15; < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile splinter, peg; cognate with German Speil
1505–15; < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile splinter, peg; cognate with German Speil
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