spile

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A post used as a foundation; a pile.
2. n. A wooden plug; a bung.
3. n. A spigot used in taking sap from a tree.
4. v. To support with a spile.
5. v. To plug or tap with a spile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A solid wooden plug used as a spigot.
2. n. A wooden or metal spout driven into a sugar-maple tree to eonduct the sap or sugar-water to a pan or bucket placed beneath it; a tapping-gouge.
3. n. In ship-building, a small wooden pin used as a plug for a nail-hole.
4. n. A narrow-pointed wedge used in tubbing.
5. n. A pile: same as pile, 3.
6. To pierce with a small hole and stop the same with a plug, spigot, or the like: said of a cask of liquid.
7. To set with piles or piling.
8. To play.
9. A dialectal form of spoil.

Wiktionary

1. n. A splinter.
2. n. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
3. n. US A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
4. v. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
5. v. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
6. v. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
7. n. A pile; a post or girder.
8. v. To support by means of spiles.
9. v. US, dialect, transitive, intransitive spoil.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.
2. n. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
3. n. A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.
4. v. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask
2. n. a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure