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noun

Spile n.

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 the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.

(Mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead on top of a set of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.

Synonyms: forepole; spill{2d}.

Spile hole, a small air hole in a cask; a vent.

verb

Spile v. t. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

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Etymology of 'Spile'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spile" Quotes from Famous Books

... partial to Plymouth, then," answered the Captain as he brought the sloop gently round the point, "for she 's been shown enough favor to spile her, according to my ...

— The Puritan Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... pettiu' chil'en; But I've raised enough to know, Sho's you spare de rod you spile 'em. Don't the Good Book tell you so?" "Yes; but Uncle Tom," I quoted, "Love will win where force will fail; Men are honest made by trusting ...

— The American Missionary -- Vol. 48, No. 10, October, 1894 • Various

... end to all wine. Suppose I go shore after they all drunk, I spile the casks in three or four places, and in the morning all wine gone—den dey ab get sober, and beg pardon—we take dem on board, put away all arms, 'cept yours and mine, and I like to see the mutiny after dat. Blood and 'ounds—but I ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

... Resolves air a thing we most gen'ally keep ill, They're a cheap kind o' dust fer the eyes o' the people; A parcel o' delligits jest git together An' chat fer a spell o' the crops an' the weather, 50 Then, comin' to order, they squabble awile An' let off the speeches they're ferful'll spile; Then—Resolve,—Thet we wunt hev an inch o' slave territory; Thet President Polk's holl perceedins air very tory; Thet the war is a damned war, an' them thet enlist in it Should hev a cravat with a dreffle tight twist in it; Thet the war is a war ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell

... y' toff," cried Tray, pocketing his money. "Ain't I a-doin' as my master tells me? He's engaged with two pretty women"—he leered in a way which made Paul long to box his ears—"so I don't spile sport. You've got ...

— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

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