flipper vs spile

flipper

verb
  • To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water. 

noun
  • Television remote control, clicker. 

  • A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce. 

  • A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play. 

  • A kind of false tooth, usually temporary. 

  • A small flat used to support a larger one. 

  • Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit. 

  • Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin. 

  • In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming. 

  • A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming. 

  • A kitchen spatula. 

spile

verb
  • To draw off (a liquid) using a spile. 

  • To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile. 

  • To support by means of spiles. 

  • spoil. 

  • To plug (a hole) with a spile. 

  • To drive piles into. 

noun
  • A pile; a post or girder. 

  • A spigot or plug used to stop the hole in a barrel or cask. 

  • A spout inserted in a maple (or other tree) to draw off sap. 

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