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
Then we shall have to hire men to help us drive spiles for the net.
The Spell of the White Sturgeon | James Arthur KjelgaardA striped snaik in the morning spiles the rest ov that day for me.
The Complete Works of Josh Billings | Henry W. ShawTaking each a bundle of spiles and an ax, the boys set out for the part of the sugar bush as yet untapped, and began their work.
The Man From Glengarry | Ralph ConnorBut now the papers bring hus news as spiles yer mornin' rasher.
I only did want to say that, if the thing takes wind, as how it raaly stood, it spiles all my calkilations.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia | William Gilmore Simms
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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