Definitions for Sill

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Sill sill

Spelling: [sil]

IPA: /sɪl/

Sill is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in Sill (ills).

Definitions for Sill

noun

1. a horizontal timber, block, or the like serving as a foundation of a wall, house, etc.
2. the horizontal piece or member beneath a window, door, or other opening.
3. Geology. a tabular body of intrusive igneous rock, ordinarily between beds of sedimentary rocks or layers of volcanic ejecta.
4. Mount, a mountain in E central California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. 14,153 feet (4314 meters).

Origin of Sill

before 900; Middle English sille, Old English syl, sylle; cognate with Low German süll, Old Norse syll; akin to German Schwelle sill

Examples for Sill

He landed on his back upon the nets, sill and a foot of boarding in his hands.

Another journalist begged him to do a sill walk live on stage then and there, but he demurred.

She put her elbows on the sill of the window and rested her face in her hands.

"You let me step in," answered Mattie, a determined foot on the sill.

In a moment he had slipped over the sill and stood upon the porch.

He mechanically stretched out a hand and felt along the sill.

We stood in the open doors with one foot resting on the sill and an elbow cocked on the roof, looking cool.

The sill is freezing in the winter and stultifyingly hot in the summer.

I'll get on the sill and see what I can do through the top o' the window.

Presently the rod must have tapped the sill, with such a start did she face about.