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Spiled vs Piled - What's the difference?

spiled | piled |

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

English

Verb

(head)
  • (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

    (-)
  • (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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