cill

British

/ sɪl /

noun

a variant spelling (used in the building industry) for sill sill sill sill

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Example Sentences

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If the PM gets the cill through, there could be a special gathering of EU leaders on 28 October.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

His sailors, made to keep their socks up, used to cill him "Ma."

From Time Magazine Archive

He was the first bishop of Killaloe, which is named after him, "cill" meaning church, and Killaloe being merely a contraction of Cill Molua, the church of Molua.

From The Charm of Ireland by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The cill was two feet below the ground level.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)

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