Spiled vs Piled - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between spiled and piled is that spiled is ( spile) while piled is ( pile). As an adjective piled is (iron manufacturing) formed from a pile or fagot.
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spiled English
Verb
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(spile)
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spile English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) or (etyl) , (etyl) spile.
Noun
( en noun)
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.
Verb
(spil)
To plug (a hole) with a spile.
To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
Etymology 2
Alteration of (pile), after Etymology 1, above.
Noun
( en noun)
A pile; a post or girder.
Verb
(spil)
To support by means of spiles.
Etymology 3
Alteration of (l).
Verb
(spil)
(US, dialect, ambitransitive) spoil.
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piled English
Verb
(head)
(pile)
Adjective
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(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
- piled iron
Having a pile or point; pointed.
* Chapman
- Magus threw a spear well piled .
Having a pile or nap.
* L. Barry (1611)
- Three-piled velvet.
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