spile

Maple Industry

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small tube or spout of wood or metal inserted in a maple tree to carry the running sap into a pail or other receptacle.

Quotations

1845

A spout, or spile as it is termed, is inserted about two inches below this incision with the same gouge.

1947

It is time . . . to get the rusty spiles and sap buckets down from the beams of the woodshed.

1966

Holes were bored in the trees with an auger and into these wooden spouts or "spiles" were inserted.