Spiled vs Piled - What's the difference?
spiled | piled |
(spile)
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.
(pile)
(iron manufacturing) Formed from a pile or fagot.
Having a pile or point; pointed.
* Chapman
Having a pile or nap.
* L. Barry (1611)
As verbs the difference between spiled and piled
is that spiled is past tense of spile while piled is past tense of pile.As an adjective piled is
formed from a pile or fagot.spiled
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*spile
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) or (etyl) , (etyl) spile.Noun
(en noun)Verb
(spil)Etymology 2
Alteration of (pile), after Etymology 1, above.Verb
(spil)Etymology 3
Alteration of (l).Verb
(spil)Anagrams
* * * ----piled
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- piled iron
- Magus threw a spear well piled .
- Three-piled velvet.