Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Piles; piling: as, the spiling must be renewed.
- noun The edge-curve of a plank or strake.
- noun plural In ship-building, the dimensions of the curve or sny of a plank's edge, commonly measured by means of a batten fastened for the purpose on the timbers.
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- verb Present participle of
spile .
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Examples
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Work on the 220 drift has slowed as crews encounter increasingly difficult conditions that require a special tunneling technique called spiling that uses steel supports to prevent the new tunnel from collapsing.
Rescuers find rubble at end of collapsed tunnel in Idaho 2011
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Minde you only those RFK coments (and if you wont even REGRET, not apology; and regret expresed in form "IF" I offended - that is mockery) It is right that she can do waht wont, but super delegats can do what moraly OK - stop her poison spiling even longer.
Carter: After June 3, it will be time for Clinton to 'give it up' 2008
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I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.
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It's a long read, but the gems like that and Sam 'spiling a beadle' filling him in are well worth the wait.
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Again, just to recap: A key agent of the FBI has been arrested on charges of spiling -- spying, rather.
CNN Transcript - Breaking News: FBI Agent Arrested for Espionage - February 20, 2001 2001
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With a bound, Willy Horse cleared the spiling and leaped to the river bed to finish his victim.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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Is about this here "spiling the River" which snarlers set down to our sort.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various
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But all in wane, they wood keep running down that bewtifool face as if enamelled with its buty; and quite heedless of how they was a spiling of her new ivory cullered sattin dress that Maddam ELISE's yung ladies had been a workin on up to five a clock that werry arternoon.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 12, 1891 Various
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About 1839, he took his new spile-driver to Maumee Bay and drove about nine hundred feet of spiling around Turtle Island, filling the enclosed space with earth to the height of three feet, to protect the light-house.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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Then the spiling gave way under the strain that for several minutes had been put upon it, and the dam went out with a crash and a roar, accompanied by a series of terrifying explosions.
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
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