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A group or mass of piles. Figures showing the distances from the edge of a template or straightedge to points along a curved part of a ship.

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  • Work on the 220 drift has slowed as crews encounter increasingly difficult conditions that require a special tunneling technique called spiling that uses steel supports...
  • Here was pooty girls Primrosing madly, and spiling their tempers a lump,
  • Is about this here "spiling the River" which snarlers set down to our sort.
  • With a bound, Willy Horse cleared the spiling and leaped to the river bed to finish his victim.
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