Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Synonyms

spile

1 American  
[spahyl] / spaɪl /

noun

  1. a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.

  2. a spout for conducting sap from the sugar maple.

  3. a heavy wooden stake or pile.

  4. Mining. forepole.

verb (used with object)

spiled, spiling

  1. to stop up (a hole) with a spile or peg.

  2. to furnish with a spigot or spout, as for drawing off a liquid.

  3. to tap by means of a spile.

  4. to furnish, strengthen, or support with spiles or piles.

spile 2 American  
[spahyl] / spaɪl /

verb (used with or without object)

spiled, spiling

  1. spoil.

spile British  
/ spaɪl /

noun

  1. a heavy timber stake or pile

  2. a spout for tapping sap from the sugar maple tree

  3. a plug or spigot

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to provide or support with a spile

  2. to tap (a tree) with a spile

  3. dialect a splinter

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of spile

1505–15; < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile splinter, peg; cognate with German Speil

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.