Difference between Bung and Spile

What is the difference between Bung and Spile?

Bung as a verb is to plug, as with a bung. while Spile as a verb is spoil

Bung

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To plug, as with a bung. To heave, toss, throw, chuck. To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. To pass a bribe.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, a hole in a vessel etc. A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. A bribe.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: (Australian slang) broken, not in working order

Spile

Part of speech: verb

Definition: spoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A spigot or plug.A spout inserted in a tree to draw off sap.A bollard. Spile is the word most frequently used on the Great Lakes to indicate a bollard.A term used in the Cornish tin mining industry referring to a metal bar or girder driven through broken rock to hold it in place while mining operations continue underneath the spiles. Typically a series of spiles are driven into the rock pile, and spiles are often used to close off a discontinued stope. The action of inserting spiles is referred to as "spiling" or "spiling-off".

We hope you now know whether to use Bung or Spile in your sentence.

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