Crossword-Solution: SPILES 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

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SPILES anagram PLISSE, SLIPES, SPIELS

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Barrel spigots 1 answer
Heavy stakes 1 answer
Maple tree sap taps 1 answer
Plugs or taps. 1 answer
Sap-drawing spigots 1 answer
Taps for drawing off maple sap. 1 answer
Taps used in collecting maple sap. 1 answer
Wooden plugs used as spigots. 1 answer
Spigots. 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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EZECMA
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eruption
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Sentences with SPILES (5)

When the Harvester hitched Betsy, loaded his spiles and sap buckets into the wagon, and started to the woods to gather the offering the wet maples were pouring down their swelling sides, almost his entire family came to see him.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1995
Mary tried to send him, and he was going in a minute, but the minute stretched and stretched, and both of them were surprised when the door opened and Dannie entered with an armload of spiles, and the rat-skinning was all over.
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1996
Hit spiles him.” The horse was a dapple-gray of unusual beauty, and as the girl reached out her hand to stroke his throat, he turned to nibble at her arm.
A Cumberland Vendetta John Fox, Jr. 2002
Got the spiles ready?” “Enough for to-day,” said Ranald, wondering how he could tell Don of the proposed visit of Mrs.
The Man From Glengarry Ralph Connor 2006
Taking each a bundle of spiles and an ax, the boys set out for the part of the sugar bush as yet untapped, and began their work.
The Man From Glengarry Ralph Connor 2006

Quotes with SPILES (2)

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, …
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon. Go from Corlears Hook to Coenties Slip, and from thence, by Whitehall, northward. What do you see? — Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks glasses! of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward …
Herman Melville Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 10 times in crossword archives (1958–2004).