Spile: Definition and part of speech

Spile

  1. v. t. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.
  2. n. A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
  3. n. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
  4. n. A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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