sile

British  

/ saɪl /

verb

1. dialect (tr) to pour with rain

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Etymology

Origin of sile

probably from Old Norse; compare Swedish and Norwegian dialect sila to pass through a strainer

Example Sentences

Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington may have been unduly suspicious about the mis sile issue.

From Time Magazine Archive

When ye can't hold back the water you must try and save the sile.

From A Diversity of Creatures by Kipling, Rudyard

But gen'rous ene-mies may meet upon the neutral sile of private life, I think.'

From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles