What's the difference between sile and spile?

Sile


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strain, as fresh milk.
  • (v. i.) To drop; to flow; to fall.
  • (n.) A sieve with fine meshes.
  • (n.) Filth; sediment.
  • (n.) A young or small herring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Awkwardness of the day Uproar in China as the national flags hauled up for Du Li and Yi Siling , silver and bronze winners in the women’s 10m air rifle, had the four smaller stars pointing in the wrong direction, a gaffe repeated when Sun Yang stepped up for his men’s 400m freestyle silver.
  • (2) What is the difference between luttering down, siling down and plothering down?
  • (3) Claims that it will boost the economy and jobs are “ vastly overblown ”, according to the political scientist Dr Gabriel Siles-Brügge , of Manchester University.
  • (4) The bronze medal was claimed by the 2012 Olympic champion, Yi Siling of China.

Spile


Definition:

  • (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.

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