| 释义 |
spile/spail/ n. & v.●n. 1 a wooden peg or spigot 木塞；木栓 2 a large timber or pile for driving into the ground 木桩；支柱 3 N. Amer. a small spout for tapping the sap from a sugar maple etc. [北美] (采糖槭树液用的)小插管 ●v. tr. broach (a cask etc.) with a spike in order to draw off liquid (给桶等)装插管 [Middle Dutch, Middle Low German, = wooden peg etc.: in sense 2 apparently an alteration of PILE2] |