Some of the people had edged to the walls as if to listen, and a few had clambered to the Sills as if to see.
Indeed, a legend runs that these Sills were not laid by men at all, but by the Dwarfs.
It is used at the corners of Sills and plates, also sometimes in chair-seats.
On those were laid the Sills, and before noon the building was up and half covered.
The only external alteration he had made had been the lowering of the Sills of the windows.
The houses are built of brick with foundations and Sills of Soignies stone.
On looking at his face I discovered that he was my messmate Sills.
I could not manage to make companions of my messmates Sills and Broom.
Sills, I believe, wished to be honest, but he had no discretion.
The largest, straightest, and best logs should be saved for Sills or foundations.
Old English syll "beam, threshold, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall," from Proto-Germanic *suljo (cf. Old Norse svill, Swedish syll, Danish syld "framework of a building," Middle Low German sull, Old High German swelli, German Schwelle "sill"), perhaps from PIE root *swel- (3) "post, board" (cf. Greek selma "beam"). Meaning "lower horizontal part of a window opening" is recorded from early 15c.
| sill A sheet of igneous rock intruded between layers of older rock. See illustration at batholith. |
