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".
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 heapA 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.