Spice vs Spile - What's the difference?
spice | spile |
(countable, uncountable) Plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food.
(figurative, uncountable) Appeal, interest; an attribute that makes something appealing, interesting, or engaging.
(uncountable, Yorkshire) Sweets, candy.
(obsolete) Species; kind.
* Wyclif Bible, 1 Thessalonians v. 22
* Sir T. Elyot
To add spice or spices to.
(nonce word)
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 spice and spile
is that spice is (countable|uncountable) plant matter (usually dried) used to season or flavour food or spice can be (nonce word) while spile is a splinter or spile can be a pile; a post or girder.As verbs the difference between spice and spile
is that spice is to add spice or spices to 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.spice
English
(wikipedia spice)Etymology 1
From (etyl) espice (modern .Noun
- Abstain you from all evil spice .
- Justice, although it be but one entire virtue, yet is described in two kinds of spices . The one is named justice distributive, the other is called commutative.
