Definitions for spiles

spiles spile

Spelling: [spahyl]
IPA: /spaɪl/

Spiles is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in spiles (eilpss).

Definitions for spiles

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)

  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.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. spoil.

Origin of spiles

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

Examples for spiles

"Not if it spiles your work, it ain't," said the man in yellow.

It makes all dar stumacs big, like as you seed 'em, and spiles dar 'gestion.

A striped snaik in the morning spiles the rest ov that day for me.

It's going to be concrete, from the spiles up—there ain't anything like it in the country.

"John, ye musn't talk so ter th' sarvents; it spiles 'em," said his wife.

It's to life what a drought is to Nature—an' it spiles mo' people than any other weakness.

The first thing done in the latter work was the driving of spiles.

Then the spiles were driven in tightly with a wooden mallet.

How deep must the spiles be driven successfully to draw off the sap?

To the Wieters belongs the spiles; if that ain't a motter, what's the use of having it?

Word Value for spiles
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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