sill
sill Lexical Profile
sill Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A horizontal piece of wood, stone, or metal forming the bottom of a window frame or doorway.
"She arranged a row of small potted succulents along the sunny window sill."
A strong horizontal structural member, such as a beam or timber, serving as the lowest foundation element of a wall, house, or bridge.
"The carpenters had to replace the rotted oak sill before they could begin framing the new exterior wall."
A tabular sheet of igneous rock intruded horizontally between and parallel with the existing strata of older rock.
"The Whin Sill in northern England is a prominent geological formation composed of ancient dolerite."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'syll' or 'sylle', meaning 'threshold, foundation, or beam', of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch 'sulle' and Old High German 'swelli'.
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