Sill

Definition of Sill

Pronunciation: sĭl
n.1.The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.
Sill course
(Arch.) a horizontal course of stone, terra cotta, or the like, built into a wall at the level of one or more window sills, these sills often forming part of it.
1.The shaft or thill of a carriage.
1.A young herring.

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base, basement, basis, bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, doorsill, doorstone, floor, flooring, fond, footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, ground, grounds, groundsel, groundwork, hardpan, mudsill, pavement, principle, radical, riprap, rock bottom, rudiment, seat, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, terra firma, threshold, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, window sill
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