Spile

(n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask.

(n.) A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.

(n.) A large stake driven into the ground as a support for some superstructure; a pile.

(v. t.) To supply with a spile or a spigot; to make a small vent in, as a cask.

克劳德整理

• It's hard enough to kill him, but it's wery hard to spile him, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Smash all down--spile all de pretty rise of it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It's hard in the law to spile a man, I think. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• S'pose not; you Kentucky folks spile your niggers. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• P'raps we had,' replied Sam, 'or they'll overdo the swarry, and that'll spile it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

校对:凯特