spile

• Father and Brother Hiram did the tapping, using an axe to cut the gash in the tree, and to drive in the gouge below it to make a place for the spile, while one of my younger brothers and I carried the pans and placed them in position. —  Our Friend John Burroughs
• Penn State student Carla Duran teaches Sara Tomchick of Tyrone to drill a hole for a spile, or tap, to collect maple sap. —  Penn State Live
• Maple Tree This tool is called a spile, and the sap drips through it. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• And if that cider apple sauce is likely to spile, I might eat a little of it; bring me a cooky to eat with it. —  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)
• As he knelt down to pull out the spile, the sloop, which had been brought to the wind, was struck on her broadside by a heavy sea which careened her to her gunnel; the lashings of the weather cask gave way, and it flew across the deck, jamming the unfortunate Thompson, who knelt against the one to leeward, and then bounding overboard. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service

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