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I believe that to spile a man, as referenced by Dickens in "A Tale of Two Cities" referrs to "Tapping a man's stomach" to let certain things out as part of the "Hung, drawn and quartered routine. Use the definition of Spile as relating to a keg and substitute a person. The term is used in the chapter referring to and describing HDQ.

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"Spile a man" is a term used in the logging industry to describe a process where a wooden plug, called a spile, is driven into a hole drilled in a tree to collect sap for making maple syrup. It is not a common or widely known phrase outside of this context.

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