DCHP-1 Online
spile Maple Industry 
n. a small tube or spout of wood or metal inserted in a maple tree to carry the running sap into a pail or other receptacle.
- 1845 A spout, or spile as it is termed, is inserted about two inches below this incision with the same gouge.
- 1947 It is time . . . to get the rusty spiles and sap buckets down from the beams of the woodshed.
- 1966 Holes were bored in the trees with an auger and into these wooden spouts or "spiles" were inserted.
- 1845 A spout, or spile as it is termed, is inserted about two inches below this incision with the same gouge.