Cask vs Spile - What's the difference?
cask | spile |
A large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks.
(obsolete) A casket; a small box for jewels.
* 1593 , , III. ii. 409:
A splinter.
A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
*:So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.
(US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
To support by means of spiles.
(US, dialect, ambitransitive) spoil.
As nouns the difference between cask and spile
is that cask is a large barrel for the storage of liquid, especially of alcoholic drinks while spile is a splinter or spile can be a pile; a post or girder.As verbs the difference between cask and spile
is that cask is to put into a cask while spile is to plug (a hole) with a spile or spile can be to support by means of spiles or spile can be (us|dialect|ambitransitive) spoil.cask
English
(wikipedia cask)Noun
(en noun)- A jewel, locked into the woefullest cask / That ever did contain a thing of worth.