spile
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She opens the silver parachute and pulls out the spile and slips it onto her pinkie.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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
Finnick and I stand with our weapons poised while he works the spile in, but no threat appears.
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
Peeta’s found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile.
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
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
Me, I got a scrape in my arm an' some son of a wolf spiled my saddle.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
"I hope they ain't spiled the child," she said.
From Rimrock Trail by Joseph Allan Dunn
"And a mercy it was that he wasn't smashed to splinters, with spiled looks and half his limbses orf," she said.
From The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume
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
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
Down below two dark forms, covered with mud and flour paste, could be seen clutching at the slippery braces of the spiling.
From Young Hunters of the Lake by Ralph Bonehill
Now get out of here–the both of you: you’re spiling trade.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
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
