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Meanings of spile in English
Synonyms
Examples for "pile"
Examples for "pile"
1
Britain currently pays about £40bn a year to finance its debt pile.
2
There'll be a pile of paper on my desk that needs attention.
3
The questions pile on top of one another: Do you believe him?
4
Now the pile of paper was not just burning; it was blazing.
5
One way is to have market participants pile on to the trend.
1
Doctor Keller has sent a final demand; the bills are piling up.
2
However, it may feel as though the responsibilities are still piling up.
3
Plastic is piling up aroudn the world and new solutions are needed.
4
Water reaching the river was piling higher, rising against already saturated levees.
5
Betty was piling wood in the living-room fireplace when he came in.
1
They had come to an area of scrubby brush on stilt roots.
2
I stepped onto the dock and looked up at the stilt house.
3
And the red land-crabs, on their stilt-like legs, crept nearer and nearer.
4
Hundreds have lived in traditional wooden stilt homes by its banks for decades.
5
John Enderby reined up his horse and looked the stilt-walker in the face.
Usage of spile in English
1
Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.
2
What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.
3
An' knowin' t' much might spile a boy for bein' a Secesher.
4
Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk.
5
It's hard in the law to spile a man, I think.
6
Faix, an' I've half a mind to; but it would spile my dinner.
7
By wiggling and adjusting the spile, we get a thin stream running out.
8
But 'twould'nt do to give 'um edukation, for they'd just spile society-they would!
9
Peeta's found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile.
10
Well, dis niggah will try to spile yo' purty plan.
11
Will ye let all that good stuff spile down yonder?
12
But if ye lick 'em too much, ye spile 'em.
13
It's hard enough to kill him, but it's wery hard to spile him, sir.
14
Didn't I break his spurit; didn't I spile his sleep!
15
But I shall spile your floor, ef I do.
16
My fingers fumble at my belt and find the spile still hanging from its vine.
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United Kingdom
Common