sill
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5.3
- noun
- /sɪl/
- Specialized
:
alféizar
- The carpenter installed a sturdy wooden sill at the base of the new window.
- window sills
You really can't get away with placing it in a window sill for too long.
- You really can't get away with placing it in a window sill for too long.
- My mother used to watch us from the window sill.
- So I decided I'm not doing the window sills, I'm not doing the ceiling, I'm not doing the floor.
- So I've just smashed the ball and I've hit a vase and the living room window sill and just sent it right through the main window in the living room.
- Press yourself against the back of the wall, reach up with both hands and grip the edge of the window sill.
- And like the day one, I ran to the window sill, I look in the Dixie cup, Nothing.
Examples
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Puts 'em on a ceramic plate on the window sill.
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Yellow bird on a window sill.
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The dog's in the window sill.
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Get on the window sill.
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There were pigeons that were sat on the window sill looking in at the bar.
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There's a small girl standing on the window sill.
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Suddenly, Miss Kitty leaps onto the sill and then out the open window.
Fiction book (1992) -
Baines is sitting next to the window, his elbow on the sill, his head turned away.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are places where the wood sill is imperfect, and the draft rushes in.
Fiction book (1994) -
One booted foot was propped up on the wide stone window sill of the tower.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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9.9
A wooden beam lying across the base of a wall that rests on the ground or foundation
A horizontal beam at the base of a building that supports the frame and spreads the weight
Compounds
How Wide
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sill originally meant the low flat piece of wood or stone at the base of a door or window, a 'threshold' or 'ledge', and that is why a window or door sill supports the frame and keeps out water.