Definitions for spilings

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spilings spil·ing

Spelling: [spahy-ling]

IPA: /ˈspaɪ lɪŋ/

Spilings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 118 anagrams from letters in spilings (giilnpss).

Definitions for spilings

noun

1. a group or mass of piles; spiles.
2. a peg or plug of wood, especially one used as a spigot.
3. a spout for conducting sap from the sugar maple.
4. a heavy wooden stake or pile.
5. 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 spilings

First recorded in 1835-45; spile¹ + -ing¹

Examples for spilings

The ship passed between the long rows of spiling with nice judgment.

Then he took a few turns with the other end about a spiling, and held hard.

"'Pears like as if we were spiling the Egyptians," said an old man who had gathered an immense pile of blankets and coats.

Is about this here "spiling the River" which snarlers set down to our sort.

With a bound, Willy Horse cleared the spiling and leaped to the river bed to finish his victim.

I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.