spile
/spaɪl/
noun
- A small wooden peg or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
- The old wooden spile was replaced with a plastic one.
- He pulled the spile from the keg to let the beer flow.
- The brewer hammered a spile into the barrel to seal it.
- A small tube or spout inserted into a tree to collect sap.
- Each spile can collect several gallons of sap in a season.
- The farmer checked the spiles early in the morning.
- They drove a spile into the maple tree to gather sap for syrup.
- A stake or pile driven into the ground as a support.
- They used steel spiles to stabilize the foundation.
- The fence was held up by wooden spiles set in concrete.
- The workers drove spiles into the marsh to build the boardwalk.
verb
- To plug or close with a spile.
- The cooper spiled the barrel to prevent leakage.
- They spiled the keg before transporting it.
- She learned how to spile a cask during her apprenticeship.
- To insert a spile into a tree for tapping sap.
- Every spring, the farmers spile the maple trees.
- He spiled the birch tree to collect the watery sap.
- They spiled over a hundred trees in the sugar bush.