Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗verb
To plug (a hole) with a spile. · To draw off (a liquid) using a spile. · To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA splinter. · A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. · A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
From Middle Dutch or Middle Low German spile (“splinter, peg”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *spīlaz (“splinter, peg”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“prickle, pointed stick”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian spyl, German Speil (“chip, splinter, gore, wedge”), Danish spile, Dutch spijl.
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