Pile
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To drive piles into; to fill with piles; to strengthen with piles. To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate; to amass; — often with up; as, to pile up wood. To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. To add something to a great number. (of vehicles) To create a hold-up.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A dart; an arrow. The head of an arrow or spear. A large stake, or piece of pointed timber, steel etc., driven into the earth or sea-bed for the support of a building, a pier, or other superstructure, or to form a cofferdam, etc. One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost. A hemorrhoid. A mass of things heaped together; a heap A mass formed in layers; as, a pile of shot. A funeral pile; a pyre. A large building, or mass of buildings. A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a fagot. A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper and zinc, laid up with disks of cloth or paper moistened with acid water between them, for producing a current of electricity; — commonly called Volta's pile, voltaic pile, or galvanic pile. The reverse (or tails) of a coin. Hair, especially when very fine or short; the fine underfur of certain animals. (Formerly countable, now treated as a collective singular.) The raised hairs, loops or strands of a fabric; to nap of a cloth.
Example sentence: The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
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".