/
spʌɪl/
n.
- a small wooden peg or spigot.
- N. Amer. a small spout for tapping the sap from a sugar maple.
- a large, heavy timber driven into the ground to support a superstructure.
v.
chiefly US or
dialect broach (a cask) with a peg to draw off liquid.
Etymology
C16: from MDu., Mid. Low Ger., ‘wooden peg’; in sense 3 appar. an alt. of pile2.
