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Large stake
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spile
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Word definitions for spile in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tap or spout for drawing maple sugar, 1844, from Northern English dialect spile "splinter" (1510s), from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile "splinter, skewer, bar, spindle," German Speiler "skewer;" perhaps related to spike (n.1).
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 ]
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.