Spile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A post used as a foundation; a pile.
  • n. A wooden plug; a bung.
  • n. A spigot used in taking sap from a tree.
  • v. To support with a spile.
  • v. To plug or tap with a spile.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A splinter.
  • n. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
  • n. A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
  • v. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
  • v. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
  • v. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
  • n. A pile; a post or girder.
  • v. To support by means of spiles.
  • v. spoil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
  • n. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
  • n. A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
  • v. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A solid wooden plug used as a spigot.
  • n. A wooden or metal spout driven into a sugar-maple tree to eonduct the sap or sugar-water to a pan or bucket placed beneath it; a tapping-gouge.
  • n. In ship-building, a small wooden pin used as a plug for a nail-hole.
  • n. A narrow-pointed wedge used in tubbing.
  • n. A pile: same as pile, 3.
  • To pierce with a small hole and stop the same with a plug, spigot, or the like: said of a cask of liquid.
  • To set with piles or piling.
  • To play.
  • A dialectal form of spoil.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
  • n. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure
  • Verb Form
    spiled    spiles    spiling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stopper    plug    stopple   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pile    poll   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    spigot    stopple    lig    bung    praam    declaim    Stan    'ave    canal boat    stopper