SPILE
\spˈa͡ɪl], \spˈaɪl], \s_p_ˈaɪ_l]\
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A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
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A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
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A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
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To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
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A large timber driven into the ground to give support to a building; a pile; a wooden pin used as a spigot; a spout driven into a sugar-maple tree to drain off the sap.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [German, Dutch] A small peg or wooden pin, used to stop a hole ;-a stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure ; a pile ;-a thin bar or pin of iron ;-a match ; a thin shaving of wood; a thin slip of paper:-also written spill.
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