Great Lakes sailors use the term 'spile' in place ofthe blue water sailor's
"bitt." Spile that wire for example means to makefast a wire mooring
line. Coupled with your contribution I'm wondering if the term came
from Europe via one of those languages and ended up being used in several
areas of endevour.

M.

"katysails" wrote in message
...
The spile I'm looking
for is 'on' the Great Lakes related.

Michael...it's any type of bung, whether it gets crammed into a hole in a
tree, a keg, or a boat....good frief...how literal does a person ahve to
be.

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