A young herring.
A column; pillar.
A sieve.
The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
A strainer or colander for liquids
A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
To go; pass.
To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
To pour with rain.
To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
To boil gently; simmer.
A young herring.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
Silly.