spile
noun
[ spʌɪl ]
• a small wooden peg or spigot for stopping a cask.
• a large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a superstructure.
spile
verb
• broach (a cask) with a peg in order to draw off liquid.
Origin:
early 16th century: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, ‘wooden peg’; in spile (sense 2 of the noun) apparently an alteration of pile2.
