Search for crossword answers and clues
Stake
Answer for the clue "Stake ", 5 letters:
spile
Alternative clues for the word spile
Word definitions for spile in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spile \Spile\, n. [Cf. LG. spile, dial. G. speil, speiler, D. spijl. [root]170.] A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple. A large stake driven into ...
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 ]
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 ...
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.