Definitions for spile

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spile spile

Spelling: [spahyl]

IPA: /spaɪl/

Spile is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in spile (eilps).

Definitions for spile

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 spile

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

Examples for spile

Hit him somewheres in the hand; spile his dealin' fo' a while.

To get the sap we chopped a gash in the tree and drove in a spile.

I allers said he'd make a spoon or spile a horn, an' I do b'lieve it's the spoon.

Wasn't the children of Israel commanded to spile the Egyptians?

When I give the word, let the hammer fall just hard enough to hit the spile.

"That's right, gentlemen; I don't want to spile sport," said the donkey's man.

Seems like ef they don't git a workin' out they'll spile on me complete.

Then, after thought: "But you got to go some to spile bad eggs."

"I don't want to spile your evening," he says, very perlite.

You just use as many on 'em as you've a mind; and all you spile I'll fetch you again from hum.