spile
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Rhys: I don’t do much with Instagram but my algorithm is generally older men showing you how to kind of spile a garboard plank next to a keel, things like that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Finnick goes to hammer the spile into the green bark of a massive tree with a rock, but I stop him.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Peeta’s found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
By wiggling and adjusting the spile, we get a thin stream running out.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Many tech stocks were having a rough start after Broadcom’s fiscal second-quarter report sparked a 15.5% decline in the stock—and spiled across the sector.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
And she vowed it was spiled, while Jack looked jest as though he could scrumplicate me.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93. July 30, 1887 by
Thar, neighbour; I’m afraid I’ve spiled yer axe, but I’m sure I’ve spiled the bar.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
“Hit means a she-bear, shore as a cap-shootin’ gun; but you’ve done spiled it all by tellin’.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
I'll not speak of it as spiled, though a prettier and a better bit of bunting was never mastheaded.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by William Makepeace Thackeray
Now get out of here–the both of you: you’re spiling trade.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
Here his feet were close to the water, but he supported himself on a cross rail nailed from one section of the spiling to another.
From Young Hunters of the Lake by Ralph Bonehill
And there’s many a lady that she never would have seen a cent, let alone making herself pay for the spiling of it.”
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
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.
From Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods by Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
