Definition of "spile"

spile¹

/spaɪl/

noun
plural spiles
1. (obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
2. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
  Quotations
  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.
  1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934
3. (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
verb
third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled
1. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
2. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
3. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.

/spaɪl/

noun
plural spiles
1. A pile; a post or girder.
  Quotations
  […] we'd settled that I’d pick up some spiles from Greg Fitch first thing on Monday morning and get something done about that fence.
  1975, Catherine Aird, Slight Mourning‎
verb
third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled
1. (transitive) To support by means of spiles.
2. (transitive) To drive piles into.

/spaɪl/

verb
third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled
1. (US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.