We would carry the pans and spiles together in big piles, where the oxen and sled could reach them.
It usually fell to my part to carry the pans and spiles for one of the tappers, Hiram or Father, and to arrange the pans on a level foundation of sticks or stones, in position.
Mr. Johnson became dissatisfied with the old system of driving spiles by horse-power, and purchased a steam engine for four hundred dollars.
Making a large wooden wheel he rigged it after the style of the present spile-drivers, and in the course of two or three weeks, had the satisfaction of seeing the spiles driven with greatly increased speed and effect by steam-power.
The yacht, with the rescued dead man laid on the deck and covered with a sheet, steamed across the narrow channel, reversed her screw, and touched the fender spiles of her wharf as gently as one would tap an egg.
The sloop was now lying alongside the wharf, with beam and stern lines made fast to the outlying water-spiles to steady her.
Wonderfully white and clean were all his buckets and shoulder-yokes, and his wooden troughs that caught the sap as it dripped into them from the ends of the wooden spiles he had driven into the trees he had tapped already.
I want to be on hand when old Wire comes to see if his spiles are set right.
It makes all dar stumacs big, like as you seed 'em, and spiles dar 'gestion.
Taking each a bundle of spilesand an ax, the boys set out for the part of the sugar bush as yet untapped, and began their work.
Then, as the water became still clearer, he saw the faint outlines of timbers and spiles and a dark object looming ominously, like a cloud, which he recognized as the bottom of some vessel.
He floundered forward and the next instant was dragged between the spiles of a dock where the water was dark with shadows.
Of course it was out of the channel, it was lying partly beneath a dock or pier and Tom noticed that the spiles of the pier sagged and that several were broken off under water.
Tom and Hippy, though lame and sore, and, at odd moments, a little dizzy, were at the dam all day long directing the work of clearing away the wreck while part of their force cut fresh spiles in the woods.
The first figure, as the two Overlanders started for him at a run, had dashed out over the broken and bent spiles of the dam, hopping from one spile to another with remarkable agility, with Willy Horse in close pursuit.
The hopping man, reaching the end of the spiles at the middle of the dam, halted, hesitated, and the Indian was upon him.
It had been quite recently built, as Tom Gray found upon examining the spiles and comparing their age with those of the lower dam.
You remember we shut the gates to keep the water below it low while we were driving the spiles for our dam.
Resin hardens into gum when exposed to the air, so it is impossible to draw it out through small tubes like spiles of elder that drain the maple sap.
Holes are bored in the trunks of the trees, and in each hole one of these hollow spiles is driven.
The pails and spiles should be in readiness before "sugar weather" begins.
If you use sumach spiles you may have to set the bucket on the ground where it is likely to get dirt in it, tip over, and it is so far from the spile that the wind blows the sap away from the pail entirely.
Elder spiles were stuck in the taps for the water to drop out in the wooden troughs, under the spiles.
These trees had been tapped and elderwood spiles were placed in the taps where the water dripped to the wooden troughs below.
After a conference in which the prospects of this kind of weather lasting were fully discussed we got the brace and bit and the spiles and began to rinse the sap-buckets.
As no teaming is done, it is seldom that there is any harness to be patched, and whittling wooden spiles to be ready for the sugar-making in the spring passed out of vogue at least a generation ago.
With the help of a little boy who was just tall enough to reach up and hang the buckets on the spiles we went at the work with a will and soon the "tink-tunk" of the falling drops could be heard in every direction.
Measuring carefully, the boats moved away and morespiles were driven.
Then we shall have to hire men to help us drive spiles for the net.
Shouting and scrambling as though this were some sort of picnic especially arranged just for them, Tom Nedley's boisterous crew threw the spiles in the water and floated them out to the boats.
Trailing behind, the spiles left a path of bubbly ripples.
We ourselves will come to help you drive new spiles and make new sets.
Too mutch kissing is like molassis kandy, it spiles the hanker for plain vittles.
I never knu an only chicken do fust rate, the old hen spiles them waiting on them, and then it tires out the old hen, more than 36 chickens would.
Natur kan be improved upon often with good effekt, but to alter it generally spiles the whole thing.
A striped snaik in the morning spiles the rest ov that day for me.
Plezzure iz like mollassiss, tew mutch ov it spiles the taste for everything.
Through the square opening thus discovered Sofia saw a ladder of several slimy steps washed by black, oily waters that sucked and swirled sluggishly round spiles green with weed and ooze.
They never could get their spiles to work, and the water gathered so slowly in the holes they bored, and some of the fellows took such long turns, that it was very little fun.
On their way to the woods they had to stop at an elder thicket to get elder-wood to make spiles of, and at a straw pile to cut straws to suck the sap through, if the spiles would not work.
The spiles used in this case were split with the same instrument, sharpened at the end with a knife, and driven into the cut.
When the time was at hand, the buckets and troughs were overhauled, spiles were made, and when all was ready the large kettles and casks were put in the sleigh, and all hands set out for the bush.
Seminole died instantly, his neck being broken in the fall, but swinging past the spiles the skin on the knuckles of his right hand was rubbed off.
The bridge is a timber one, having three spans, supported on spiles resting on wooden foundations.
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.
He loaded the kettles, buckets, and spiles and stopped at the spice thicket to cut a bale of twigs as he passed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spiles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
