| spile |
noun |
A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask., A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple., A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile., To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask. |
| spill |
noun |
A bit of wood split off; a splinter., A slender piece of anything., A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile., A metallic rod or pin., A small roll of paper, or slip of wood, used as a lamplighter, etc., One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground., A little sum of money., To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay., To destroy; to kill; to put an end to., To mar; to injure; to deface; hence, to destroy by misuse; to waste., To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; — applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour., To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another’s blood, or his own blood., To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain., To be destroyed, ruined, or wasted; to come to ruin; to perish; to waste., To be shed; to run over; to fall out, and be lost or wasted. |