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sill
sill is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The timber or stone at the foot of a door; the threshold.
- 3noun
The timber or stone on which a window frame stands; or, the lowest piece in a window frame.
- 4noun
The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.
- 5noun
A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- 6noun
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
- 7noun
A young herring.
- 8noun
structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
- 9noun
(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock
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