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Definition of Spiles
1. spile [v] - See also: spile
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiles
Literary usage of Spiles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Common Pleas for the by Charles Patrick Daly (1872)
"DALY, FJ—The spiles were driven at the end of the pier for the benefit of the
Steamship Company, and if there were old and decayed spiles there before, ..."
2. Unpolished Pebbles: Poems by James Martin Shawhan (1902)
"... Then sugar trees are full o' spiles; An' crows an' blackbirds seem t' come
From every part o' Christendom; An' dandelions, like golden stars, ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1895)
"... and at the time was doing other things on the deck besides helping to steady
the spiles; that several minutes before the accident, he was standing on ..."
4. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"These stakes are often called "spiles," and are driven with the bevel downward.
After driving the spiles three or four feet in ..."
5. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1904)
"These stakes are often called "spiles," and are driven with the bevel downward.
After driving the spiles three or four feet in advance of the set, ..."
6. Reports of Cases by New York (State). Court of Appeals (1881)
"Two of these spiles had fallen away, as above; specified. ... The spiles were
wholly • submerged in the water, except at low tide. ..."
7. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1881)
"How they came to fall away, or when they fell away, does not appear. The spiles
were wholly submerged in the water, except at low tide. ..."
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