rose vs spile

rose

noun
  • A round nozzle for a sprinkling can or hose. 

  • Something resembling a rose flower. 

  • A shrub of the genus Rosa, with red, pink, white or yellow flowers. 

  • The usually circular base of a light socket in the ceiling, from which the fitting or chandelier is suspended. 

  • A plant or species in the rose family. (Rosaceae) 

  • Any of various large, red-bodied, papilionid butterflies of the genus Pachliopta. 

  • Any of various flower-like polar graphs of sinusoids or their squares. 

  • A purplish-red or pink colour, the colour of some rose flowers. 

  • The rose flower, usually depicted with five petals, five barbs, and a circular seed. 

  • A flower of the rose plant. 

  • A graph with only one vertex. 

verb
  • To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. 

  • To perfume, as with roses. 

  • simple past tense of rise 

adj
  • Having a purplish-red or pink colour. See rosy. 

spile

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

  • A pile; a post or girder. 

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

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

  • To support by means of spiles. 

  • spoil. 

  • To plug (a hole) with a spile. 

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

  • To drive piles into. 

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