Spilt vs Spile - What's the difference?
spilt | spile |
That has been spilt.
(chiefly, British) (spill)
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 verbs the difference between spilt and spile
is that spilt is (chiefly|british) (spill) 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.As an adjective spilt
is that has been spilt.As a noun spile is
a splinter or spile can be a pile; a post or girder.spilt
English
Adjective
(-)- Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.