Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - sill
Sill
sill
n. (also cill) 1 a shelf or slab of stone, wood, or metal at the foot of a window or doorway. 2 a horizontal timber at the bottom of a dock or lock entrance, against which the gates close. 3 Geol. a tabular sheet of igneous rock intruded between other rocks and parallel with their planar structure. Etymology: OE syll, sylle
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noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English syll; akin to Old High German swelli beam, threshold Date: before 12th century a horizontal piece (as a timber) that forms the lowest member or one of the lowest members of a framework or supporting structure: as, the horizontal member at the base of a window, the threshold of a door, a tabular body of igneous rock injected while molten between sedimentary or volcanic beds or along foliation planes of metamorphic rocks, a submerged ridge at relatively shallow depth separating the basins of two bodies of water ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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