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   spile

   /spʌɪl/

   noun

   • 1. a small wooden peg or spigot for stopping a cask.
   • ▪ a small wooden or metal spout for tapping the sap from a sugar maple. North American
   • 2. a large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a superstructure.

   verb

   • 1. broach (a cask) with a peg in order to draw off liquid.

   Word Origin early 16th century: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, ‘wooden peg’; in spile (sense 2 of the noun) apparently an alteration of pile2.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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