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Spiled vs Spiced - What's the difference?

spiled | spiced |

As verbs the difference between spiled and spiced

is that spiled is past tense of spile while spiced is past tense of spice.

As an adjective spiced is

having spice added, spicy.

spiled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spile)

    • Anagrams

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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.

    • Anagrams

    * * * ----

    spiced

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having spice added, spicy.
    • Fred preferred spiced rum to plain.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spice)

    • See also

    * spiced up