sile
Britishverb
Etymology
Origin of sile
probably from Old Norse; compare Swedish and Norwegian dialect sila to pass through a strainer
Example Sentences
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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
Washington may have been unduly suspicious about the mis sile issue.
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
But gen'rous ene-mies may meet upon the neutral sile of private life, I think.'
From Martin Chuzzlewit by Dickens, Charles
No more do th' original owners iv th' sile, they bein' kept movin' be th' polis.
From Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War by Dunne, Finley Peter
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