† spilen.1
Obsolete. rare.
Sport, play. (In figurative senses: cf. spile v.1 1b.)
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society > leisure > entertainment > [noun]
gleea700
playeOE
gameeOE
lakec1175
skentingc1175
wil-gomenc1275
solacec1290
deduit1297
envesurec1300
playingc1300
disport1303
spilea1325
laking1340
solacingc1384
bourdc1390
mazec1390
welfarea1400
recreationc1400
solancec1400
sporta1425
sportancea1450
sportingc1475
deport1477
recreancea1500
shurting15..
ebate?1518
recreating1538
abatementc1550
pleasuring1556
comfortmenta1558
disporting1561
pastiming1574
riec1576
joyance1595
spleen1598
merriment1600
amusement1603
amusing1603
entertainment1612
spleena1616
divertisement1651
diversion1653
disportment1660
sporting of nature1666
fun1726
délassement1804
gammock1841
pleasurement1843
dallying1889
rec1922
good, clean fun1923
cracka1966
looning1966
shoppertainment1993
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3462 Ðe ðridde daiges morge-quile Ðunder and leuene made spile.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2977 Polheuedes and froskes & podes spile Bond harde egipte folc in sile [perh. read file = filth].
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spilen.2
/spʌɪl/, U.S. /spaɪl/ 1. northern dialect and †Scottish. A splinter, chip, or narrow strip, of wood; a spill.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > splinter or chip
astela1330
spelkc1440
spile1513
spane1602
shive1661
flakec1720
splice1875
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. ix. 42 Sum stekyt throu the cost with spilis of tre Lay gaspand.
1540 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1907) VII. 486 For glew, to glew on the spilis upoun ane patrown of ane gun.
1634 Lowe's Chirurg. (ed. 3) 111 The tumor being opened,..you must separate the [membrane]..gently from the flesh, either with your Spyle or other fit instrument proper to pull it out.
1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ A Spile or Spill.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 242/2 Two wedges made out of one piece, and two spiles.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 242/2 He..drives in a wooden spile, which immediately stops the leak.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale 79/1 Spile, a splinter.
1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) Thor's a spile run into ma finger.
2. figurative.1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xvi This Province is like that are tree;..and if they don't drive in a spile and stop the everlastin flow of the sap, it will perish altogether.
a. A small plug of wood for stopping the vent of a cask; a vent-peg; a spigot. Chiefly dialect.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > spigot
dossil1297
spigot1383
spicket14..
tap-staff14..
faucetc1430
dottle1440
tap-tree1483
tapon1543
forcehead1598
spiddock1629
spile1707
vent-peg1707
pale1726
spile-pega1825
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 573 Have near the Bung-hole a little Vent-hole stopp'd with a Spile.
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer viii. 196 They will..employ themselves..either in making bungs or spoyls for their oil casks.
1796– in many dial. glossaries.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. v. 72 He knelt..to pull out the spile.
1896 Sun 11 Dec. 3/2 A number of spiles for extracting spirit from casks.
b. North American. A small wooden or metal spout for conducting sap from the sugar-maple.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > spout for maple syrup
spile1844
sap spout1878
1844 Knickerbocker 23 444 The spiles you see sticking from sugar-holes in every maple.
1868 Amer. Naturalist 2 39 He remembers very distinctly making ‘spiles’ of its [sc. elder] stems when tapping sugar-trees.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2268/1 A notch is cut by an axe in the tree above the spile.
1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 9 The bees get their first taste of sweet from the sap as it flows from the spiles.
1947 K. M. Wells Owl Pen 89 It is time..to get the rusty spiles and sap buckets down from the beams in the woodshed. It is maple syrup time.
1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada xi. 144 The operator drilled a hole into the side of the [maple tree] trunk..and set into this a small wooden spout called a spile.
3. technical. (See quot. 1750 and cf. spill n.1 3)In some later nautical dictionaries.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > peg to stop spike-hole
spile1750
spill1875
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 156 Spiles are small Wood Pins, which are drove into the Nail-holes, when a Ship's Sheathing is taken off.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as spile-borer, spile-hole, spile-peg, spile-tap.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > closure for a vessel, tube, etc. > spigot
dossil1297
spigot1383
spicket14..
tap-staff14..
faucetc1430
dottle1440
tap-tree1483
tapon1543
forcehead1598
spiddock1629
spile1707
vent-peg1707
pale1726
spile-pega1825
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spile-hole, the air-hole in a cask. Spile-peg, the wooden peg closing the hole for the admission of air into a cask when it is tapped.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2268/1 Spile-borer, an auger-bit to bore out stuff for spiles.
1885 Whitby Times 31 July 2/6 Bar, &c.—Trays, waiters,..screws, spring spile taps, crushers.
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spilen.3
/spʌɪl/, U.S. /spaɪl/ 1.
a. = pile n.1 3.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > foundation(s) > pile(s)
pilelOE
piling1422
spile1513
piloti1674
stilt1697
drift1721
bearing pile?1761
sheet-piling1789
sheeting-pile1837
screw pile1840
sheet-pile1841
sheath-piling1902
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. x. 20 Aschame ȝe nocht..To be inclosit amyd a fald of stakis, And be assegit..With akyn spyllis and dikis on syk wys?
1614 in Trans. Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archæol. Soc. (1912) 244 [Some of the] spiles [which had been placed at the king's charges for defence of the sea].
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Spile, to make a foundation in soft or boggy ground by driving in spiles; i.e. piles or pieces of timber.
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 47 Another runs to read the bill that's stuck against the spile upon the wharf.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 A spile, pointed with iron, six inches in diameter, and twenty feet long, is set upon the stump by a diver.
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 351 In very large stumps, the spile is often driven till its top reaches the water.
1878 N. H. Bishop Voy. Paper Canoe 115 The government is building a remarkable pier of solid iron spiles, three abreast.
b. (See quot. a1825.)
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Spile, a wedge of wood stoutly pointed with iron, used in clay or gravel pits, lime~stone quarries, etc., to let down large quantities at once.
c. Mining. A sharp-pointed post used in sinking by means of cribs.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > other mining equipment
dial1681
stick1708
motty1797
nail1839
spiking crib or curb1839
spile1841
bull1849
dag1863
ore bin1867
monitor1873
Billy Fairplay1876
snibble1883
brattice-cloth1885
breaker1885
steam point1895
picking belt1900
self-rescuer1924
rock duster1930
walking dragline1930
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 293/1 Supposing..the sand five fathoms..in depth,..and the length of the spiles six feet.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 293/1 The five rounds of spiles and cribs..will take up 10 feet of the diameter of the pit.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 231 Spiles, narrow-pointed tubbing wedges.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > shoot or blade > blade of grass
bladec1450
pilea1522
spile1649
1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xv. xxx. 133 Yet what God will, be done; as many a spile of Grasse perisheth, when the Heaven giveth not its raine.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations (in sense 1), as spile-driver, spile-pier, spile-worm.
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1865 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 393/1 By means of a spiledriver, an iron pipe..is driven down until it rests upon the solid rock.
1894 Harper's Mag. Jan. 422 The operation of a spile~driver at Plymouth docks.
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. Spile-worm, a ship-worm; teredo.
1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 4 An overhead-crane travelled..along its spile-pier.
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† spilev.1
Obsolete.
1.
a. intransitive. To sport or play; to rejoice.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > be merry [verb (intransitive)]
blissc897
spilea1000
merryOE
to make good cheera1275
blithea1400
gleea1400
to play the goodfellow1563
jolly1610
to keep Hilary term1618
gaya1629
jovialize1640
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > rejoicing or exultation > rejoice or exult [verb (intransitive)]
fainc888
blissc897
gladc950
hightOE
spilea1000
make mirthc1225
playc1225
gladdena1300
to make joyc1300
joisec1320
joya1325
rejoyc1350
enjoyc1380
to be joyeda1382
mirtha1400
gloryc1400
rejoicec1405
enjoysec1470
triumph1535
exult1593
to take joya1616
gratify1811
tripudiate1891
kvell1940
a1000 Inst. Polity in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 322 [Hi] lufiað..idele blisse..& ealne dæg fleardiað, spelliað & spiliað, & nænige note dreogað.
a1023 Wulfstan Homilies 45 Eowra leoda, þe spiliað and plegað and rædes ne hedað.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6894 Þer he mid his hirede hæhliche spilede.
c1315 Shoreham v. 89 Elizbeth wel þat aspyde, Hou a spylede onder hyre syde, And made hys reioyynge.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2532 God leue hem in his blisse spilen Among engeles & seli men.
b. To play havoc, do damage. (Cf. spile n.1)
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [verb (intransitive)]
woundc897
spilea1325
grieve1398
to bring (also go, put, run) to wrack (and ruin)1412
mangle1533
to do, make, etc. (great, much) spoil1575
wreck1634
trash1970
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3183 Oc ðe ail haued so wide spiled, Ðat his graue is ðor-vnder hiled.
2. transitive and intransitive. To say; to speak.Frequently in Layamon, through confusion with spellien spell v.1 (cf. the first quot. in sense 1 above).
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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)]
matheleOE
speakc888
spellc888
yedc888
i-quethec900
reirdOE
meldOE
meleOE
quidOE
i-meleOE
wordOE
to open one's mouth (also lips)OE
mootOE
spellc1175
carpa1240
spilec1275
bespeakc1314
adda1382
mella1400
moutha1400
utter?a1400
lalec1400
nurnc1400
parlec1400
talkc1400
to say forthc1405
rekea1450
to say on1487
nevena1500
quinch1511
quetch1530
queckc1540
walk1550
cant1567
twang1602
articulate1615
tella1616
betalk1622
sermocinate1623
to give tongue1737
jaw1748
to break stillness1768
outspeaka1788
to give mouth1854
larum1877
to make noises1909
verbal1974
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
speakc825
queatheOE
forthdoc900
i-seggenc900
sayeOE
speak971
meleOE
quidOE
spella1000
forthbringc1000
givec1175
warpa1225
mootc1225
i-schirea1250
upbringa1250
outsay?c1250
spilec1275
talec1275
wisea1300
crackc1315
nevena1325
cast1330
rehearsec1330
roundc1330
spend1362
carpa1375
sermona1382
to speak outc1384
usea1387
minc1390
pronouncea1393
lancec1400
mellc1400
nurnc1400
slingc1400
tellc1400
wordc1400
yelpc1400
worka1425
utterc1444
outspeakc1449
yielda1450
arecchec1460
roose?a1475
cutc1525
to come forth with1532
bubble1536
prolate1542
report1548
prolocute1570
bespeak1579
wield1581
upbraid1587
up with (also mid) ——1594
name1595
upbrayc1600
discoursea1616
tonguea1616
to bring out1665
voice1665
emit1753
lip1789
to out with1802
pitch1811
go1836
to open one's head1843
vocabulize1861
shoot1915
verbal1920
be1982
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7144 What weoren þat speche þe þat maide spilede [c1300 Otho speke].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7037 Ofte heo stilledliche spækeð & spilieð mid runen. of twam ȝunge monnen.
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spilev.2
/spʌɪl/, U.S. /spaɪl/ 1. transitive. To stop up (a hole) by means of a spile. Also with up.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close an aperture or orifice > with a plug or stopper
to make a stoupaille of1426
bung1600
plug1630
cork1659
spile1691
stopple?1795
stopper1827
stopper1869
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xxii Nail-holes, which they use to spile up at stripping.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 45 They were forced to..spile the Spike-holes.
1837 in Civil Engineer & Archit. Jrnl. 1 242/1 If there should be a defect in the joint it must be made afresh, as it can neither be spiled as a wooden joint, nor set up as a lead joint.
2. To draw (liquid) from a cask by spiling or broaching. Now dialect.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [verb (transitive)] > take from cask or cellar
run1554
uncellar1611
discask1615
broach1649
spile1772
ullage1881
pull1910
1772 in J. Tomlinson Doncaster (1887) 237 Going to Rossington to Spile the Court Ale.
1904 Eng. Dial. Dict. V. 664/1 I never spiled the beer.
3. To provide (a cask, tree, etc.) with a spile, in order to draw off liquid. Now dialect or U.S.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > open to use or a source > broach (a cask, etc.)
to set abroach1390
attame1393
abroachc1400
tame?a1412
broachc1440
to set a (on) broachc1440
strikea1616
tap1694
peg1721
spile1832
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. v. 63 I've spiled them, and they prove to be puncheons of rum.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiv. 259 Then one of the casks of wine was spiled.
1904 G. Atherton Rulers of Kings ix. 33 Of course the trees have to be spiled.
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spilev.3
/spʌɪl/, U.S. /spaɪl/ transitive. To furnish, secure, or strengthen with timber or iron piles; = pile v.1 2.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > lay foundations > with piles
pile1432
stag1610
spile1829
sheet-pile1842
1829 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (new ed.) Spile, to make a foundation in soft or boggy ground by driving in spiles; i.e. piles or pieces of timber.
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n.31513v.1a1000v.21691v.31829- olater
- olation
- olatry
- olbers paradox
- old
- old , ill thief
- old academic
- old academy
- old acquainted
- old adam
- old adamish
- old adder
- old adversary
- old age
- old age pension
- old age pensioner
- old age security
- old aged
- old ale
- old and bitter
- old and infirm
- old and mild
- old and new red sandstone
- old and the new testament
- old apple