different between spile vs saile

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile (“splinter, peg”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sp?laz (“splinter, peg”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“prickle, pointed stick”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spyl, German Speil (“chip, splinter, gore, wedge”), Danish spile, Dutch spijl.

Noun

spile (plural spiles)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
2. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
   • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, 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.

3. (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.

Verb

spile (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.

Etymology 2

Alteration of pile, after Etymology 1, above.

Noun

spile (plural spiles)

1. A pile; a post or girder.
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Verb

spile (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.

Etymology 3

Alteration of spoil.

Verb

spile (third-person singular simple present spiles, present participle spiling, simple past and past participle spiled)

1. (US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.

Anagrams

• Elpis, Lipes, Peils, Piels, Piles, Siple, piles, plies, pliés, slipe, spiel

Danish

Etymology

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Verb

spile (imperative spil, infinitive at spile, present tense spiler, past tense spilede, perfect tense har spilet)

1. To dilate.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spil, spyl

Etymology

From spilen. Alternatively from a Old English *spil, from Proto-West Germanic *spil

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spi?l/, /spil/

Noun

spile

1. (rare) amusement, entertainment, celebration

References

• “sp??le, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-20.

English

Noun

saile (plural sailes)

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Verb

saile

1. Obsolete spelling of sail

Anagrams

• Alesi, ELISA, Elias, aisle, eLISA, slaie

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal??/

Noun

saile

1. genitive singular of sail

Mutation

Middle English

Verb

saile

1. Alternative form of assailen