Spiled vs Spired - What's the difference?
spiled | spired |
(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.
having a spire
*{{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edwin Bjorkman, title=The Soul of a Child, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer. }}
As a verb spiled
is past tense of spile.As an adjective spired is
having a spire.spiled
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Verb
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*spile
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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
* * * ----spired
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