2. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with
spikes.
Or by the spiky harrow cleared away.
Dyer.
The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore.
Pope.
Spile (?), n. [Cf. LG. spile, dial. G. speil, speiler, D. spijl.
√170.] 1. A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in
a cask.
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2. A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from
a sugar maple.
3. A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some
superstructure; a pile.
Spile hole, a small air hole in a cask; a vent.
Spile (?), v. t. To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small
vent in, as a cask.
Spil"i*kin (?), n. [OD. spelleken a small pin. See Spill a splinter.]
One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other
material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as
in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces;
pushpin. [Written also spillikin, spilliken.]
Spill (?), n. [√170. Cf. Spell a splinter.] 1. A bit of wood
split off; a splinter. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]