Spiles

Mrs. Grey remembered vividly when there were no camp-houses, with their big furnaces and evaporating pans, and no little metal "spiles" to conduct the sap from the trees to the tins beneath. ❋ Unknown (1904)

The industry died at the end of the century and the rotted piles or spiles, all that remained of the once busy pier, gave rise to the name of “The Spiles”, present-day Beachwood. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The jumper was stacked with buckets and their tops, and a box of thin metal spiles. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

The sap buckets were scrubbed and the spiles were ready and waiting. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

We made our way along the main road like that, Mark running up and down the hill to the jumper for more buckets and spiles while the horses and I struggled to break a trail. ❋ Kristin Kimball (2010)

She gives us words such as “spilth,” “spelth,” “splints,” “spiles,” and “spatch.” ❋ Greenintegerblog (2008)

The tap, tap, of the sap falling into the tin buckets from the spiles punctuated her words. ❋ Belinda (2008)

I delight in being in the woods, here today, alive with brightly clad children, parents, and spiles, and buckets, rubber hose, crackling fire, and a sugar shack. ❋ Belinda (2008)

Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from ❋ Unknown (2002)

Making a large wooden wheel he rigged it after the style of the present spile-drivers, and in the course of two or three weeks, had the satisfaction of seeing the spiles driven with greatly increased speed and effect by steam-power. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)

The first thing done in the latter work was the driving of spiles. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)

Mr. Johnson became dissatisfied with the old system of driving spiles by horse-power, and purchased a steam engine for four hundred dollars. ❋ Maurice [Unknown Role] Joblin (N/A)

-- Keep it on one side, and you spiles his purchase. ❋ Various (N/A)

1. Last night me and my girl were [having it] so much, I silver spiled her. It kept [dripping out]. 2. Last night I was [jacking] so hard that I silver spiled so much. ❋ Fuck Boi 97 (2017)