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Webster 1913 Edition


Spile

Spile

(spīl)
,
Noun.
[Cf. LG.
spile
, dial. G.
speil
,
speiler
, D.
spijl
. √170.]
1.
A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
2.
A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
3.
A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
Spile hole
,
a small air hole in a cask; a vent.

Spile

(spīl)
,
Verb.
T.
To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

Webster 1828 Edition


Spile

SPILE

,
Noun.
[L. pilus, pilum, &c.]
1.
A small peg or wooden pin, used to stop a hole.
2.
A stake driven into the ground to protect a bank, &c.

Definition 2024


spile

spile

English

Noun

spile (plural spiles)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
  2. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
      So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.
  3. (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.

Verb

spile (third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled)

  1. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
  2. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
  3. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.

Etymology 2

Alteration of pile, after Etymology 1, above.

Noun

spile (plural spiles)

  1. A pile; a post or girder.

Verb

spile (third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled)

  1. To support by means of spiles.

Etymology 3

Alteration of spoil.

Verb

spile (third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled)

  1. (US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.

Anagrams


Danish

Verb

spile (imperative spil, infinitive at spile, present tense spiler, past tense spilede, perfect tense har spilet)

  1. To dilate.