Synonyms of the word spile


SPILEBUNG - COLUMN - PILE - PILING - PILLAR - PLUG - STILT - STOPPER - STOPPLE

spile

  • n. (obsolete or dialectal) A splinter.
  • n. A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask.
  • n. (US) A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap.
  • v. To plug (a hole) with a spile.
  • v. To draw off (a liquid) using a spile.
  • v. To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile.
  • n. A pile; a post or girder.
  • v. To support by means of spiles.
  • v. (US, dialect, transitive, intransitive) spoil.

bung

  • n. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck…
  • n. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
  • n. (slang) A bribe.
  • n. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.
  • n. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
  • v. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.
  • v. (Britain, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck.
  • v. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
  • v. (transitive) To pass a bribe.
  • adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order.

column

  • n. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such…
  • n. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
  • n. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
  • n. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent…
  • n. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column…
  • n. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single…
  • n. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
  • n. (botany) The gynostemium.
  • n. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

pile

  • n. A mass of things heaped together; a heap.
  • n. (figuratively, informal) A group or list of related items up for consideration, especially in some kind…
  • n. A mass formed in layers.
  • n. A funeral pile; a pyre.
  • n. A large building, or mass of buildings.
  • n. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering…
  • n. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks…
  • n. (obsolete) The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
  • n. (figuratively) A list or league.
  • v. (transitive, often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to…
  • v. (transitive) To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load.
  • v. (transitive) To add something to a great number.
  • v. (transitive) (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
  • v. (transitive, military) To place (guns, muskets, etc.) together in threes so that they can stand upright,…
  • n. (obsolete) A dart; an arrow.
  • n. The head of an arrow or spear.
  • n. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support…
  • n. (heraldry) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise,…
  • v. (transitive) To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles.
  • n. (usually in the plural) A hemorrhoid.
  • n. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now…
  • n. The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; the nap of a cloth.
  • n. An atomic pile; an early form of nuclear reactor.

piling

  • n. A structural support comprising a length of wood, steel, or other construction material.
  • n. The act of heaping up.
  • n. (ironworking) The process of building up, heating, and working fagots or piles to form bars, etc.
  • v. present participle of pile.

pillar

  • n. (architecture) A large post, often used as supporting architecture.
  • n. Something resembling such a structure.
  • n. An essential part of something that provides support.
  • n. (Roman Catholicism) A portable ornamental column, formerly carried before a cardinal, as emblematic of…
  • n. The centre of the volta, ring, or manege ground, around which a horse turns.
  • v. To provide with pillars or added strength as if from pillars.

plug

  • n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
  • n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
  • n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
  • n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
  • n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
  • n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
  • n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
  • n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
  • n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
  • n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
  • n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
  • v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
  • v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
  • v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
  • v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

stilt

  • n. Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by…
  • n. A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
  • n. Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have…
  • n. A crutch.
  • n. The handle of a plough.
  • v. to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts.

stopper

  • n. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
  • n. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
  • n. A bung or cork.
  • n. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
  • n. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is…
  • n. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination,…
  • n. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
  • n. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
  • v. To close a container by using a stopper.

stopple

  • n. a plug, a stopper.
  • v. to plug, to stop up.

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