Like many such older terms, the word spile has other local meanings.

This can be seen by the bubbles foaming around the spile.

Then you must tap the spile and hang the bucket from the tree.

A spile is then placed in the hole to regulate the gas flow.

During service, the spile must be removed to allow air in to replace the beer drawn off.

When fermentation starts to slow down, a hard spile is used to control the escape of the gas.

The soft spile in the shive allows gas to vent off.

Similarly, the shive hole may be sealed with a spile.

The shive with the spile will then be the highest point on the cask.

Arthur examined the spile with an expert eye and said, "Chestnut.

Caroline knelt, freeing the line from the spile that secured it.

Jackson jumped out; Caroline tossed him the line, and he hitched it to a spile.

What you lost at the spile, you would gain at the bung.

A small wooden peg called a spile is knocked into the soft core of the shive.

Visitors will be shown how to make a spile and how to insert it into the tree to let the sap run.

Two types are used: a soft spile and a hard spile.

Two kinds of spile are available.

Once the cellarman judges this process to be complete, a hard spile is inserted which does not allow any more gas out of the cask.

Hammer a hard spile or perhaps even a plastic sealing peg into the shive hole.

Before serving the beer, a spile is hammered into the shive and a tap into the keystone.

The landlord will periodically check the bubbles by wiping the spile clean and then watching to see how fast the bubbles reform.

While the beer continues to ferment in the cask the CO 2 produced escapes through the soft spile.

The Spray and her one-man crew returned after nearly three and a half year to the very cedar spile that was used for her launch.

A spile is a small wooden peg used to control the flow of air into, and carbon dioxide out of, a cask of ale.

That fine autumn morning Rasselas was lying, chin on ground, watching Mr. Calder creosote the sharp end of a wooden spile.