Definition of "spiles" []

• Plural form of spile. (noun)

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• "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."
• "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."
• "The jumper was stacked with buckets and their tops, and a box of thin metal spiles."