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A plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
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spile
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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 ...
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.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spile is a small wooden or metal peg used to control the flow of air into, and carbon dioxide out of, a cask of ale . It also can be used to obtain water from a tree .
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.