English Dictionary

spile

IPA（発音記号）

/spaɪl/

名詞

方言 廃用 アメリカ英語

(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter. / A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. / (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.

日本語の意味

（古語または方言）木片、細い破片・小枝 / 樽や樽の穴を塞ぐために用いる栓またはふた / （米語）樹液採取のためにカエデなどの樹木に挿入する注ぎ口

After splitting the oak, a small spile lodged painfully in her fingertip.

樫を割った後、小さなささくれが彼女の指先に痛く刺さった。

意味（1）

(obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.

意味（2）

A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.

So I felt my way down the passage back to the vault, and recked not of the darkness, nor of Blackbeard and his crew, if only I could lay my lips to liquor. Thus I groped about the barrels till near the top of the stack my hand struck on the spile of a keg, and drawing it, I got my mouth to the hold.

意味（3）

(US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.

spiles （ plural ）