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spile
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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 ...
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.