spile
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She opens the silver parachute and pulls out the spile and slips it onto her pinkie.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
My mockingjay pin now lives with Cinna’s outfit, but there’s the gold locket and the silver parachute with the spile and Peeta’s pearl.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Peeta’s found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Finnick goes to hammer the spile into the green bark of a massive tree with a rock, but I stop him.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Then I think of the spile and wrest it from the tree trunk.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
Many tech stocks were having a rough start after Broadcom’s fiscal second-quarter report sparked a 15.5% decline in the stock—and spiled across the sector.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
"There's more good men spiled by schoolmasters than we hear tell of in the noospapers."
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
"I hope they ain't spiled the child," she said.
From Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
"You may bet your hat on one thing," says the bold yeoman,—"a man may know sunthin', an' be a good minister an' a tol'able deacon, but he's spiled for farmin'."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 by Various
Oh! there's nothing else spiled or flung down the sink, jist now," said Drusa, "but something's at hand a heap worse than all.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
Now get out of here–the both of you: you’re spiling trade.
From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen
Here his feet were close to the water, but he supported himself on a cross rail nailed from one section of the spiling to another.
From Young Hunters of the Lake by Bonehill, Ralph
The ship passed between the long rows of spiling with nice judgment.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
And there’s many a lady that she never would have seen a cent, let alone making herself pay for the spiling of it.”
From At Fault by Chopin, Kate
I rushed forrard, and raised her to my arms: spiling thereby a new weskit and a pair of crimson smalcloes.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
