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Tree-tapping spigot
Answer for the clue "Tree-tapping spigot ", 5 letters:
spile
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Word definitions for spile in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spile \Spile\, v. t. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context obsolete or dialectal English) A splinter. 2 A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. 3 (context US English) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap. vb. 1 To plug (a hole) with a spile. 2 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile , piling , stilt ] a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: bung ]
Usage examples of spile.
They had washed and triple rinsed innumerable coils of plastic tubing, many buckets of spiles, and a dozen implements of the stainless steel variety.
Men were unloading spiles from a cable car that ran out on the pier on a little construction railway, as well as other material with which to fill in the pier.
I was passable enough when I went with the tinker, though nothing to boast of then: but what with blowing the fire with my mouth when I was young, and spileing my complexion, and singeing my hair off, and swallering the smoke.