A small wooden or metal spout for conducting sap from the sugar-maple.
| Example | Meaning |
Well you got to tap a tree and if you do it the way everybody started out with, you've got- you put a spile in the hole you drilled and you hang a bucket on it, then you got to collect the sap and then you have to boil it and it all depends on whether you've got a good, big evaporator or not |
Something used to get sap out from trees |
Interviewer: Now what did you call the thing that goes into the tree again? What was that- Speaker: A spile. |
Something used to get sap out from trees |
| Example | Meaning |
Oh I remember that very well because it- and it was quite a task. We tapped something like three-hundred trees which was huge for the times because my dad and a hired man tapped all those trees by hand with a brace-and-bit and you put the spile in… |
Something used to get sap out from trees |
