sile vs sill

sile

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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. 

sill

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • Silly. 

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