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
She opens the silver parachute and pulls out the spile and slips it onto her pinkie.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Peeta’s found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
I cut the vine that ties the spile to my belt and hold the metal tube out to him.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
I drop the spile, forget where I am or what lies ahead, only know I must reach her, protect her.
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
But it clean spiled a graun' nicht for me to see ye slippin' ben.
From St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. Knowles
"It's a durn shame," said Adolph Kunkel as he surreptitiously removed an olive, "that the plums is spiled, for this is the best supper I ever flopped my lip over."
From The Lady Doc by Caroline Lockhart
Well, see here: argyment’s my weakness, in a manner of speaking; I wouldn’t a-borne down and spiled sport not for gold untold, no, not for rum, I wouldn’t!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Oh! there's nothing else spiled or flung down the sink, jist now," said Drusa, "but something's at hand a heap worse than all.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
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
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
The ship passed between the long rows of spiling with nice judgment.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
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
Now get out of here–the both of you: you’re spiling trade.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
