Usually means: Horizontal structural member below window.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sill: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sill: Merriam-Webster
  3. sill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sill: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sill: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sill, sill: Wordnik
  8. sill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sill, sill: Wiktionary
  10. sill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sill: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sill: Dictionary.com
  14. sill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sill (disambiguation), Sill (geology), Sill (geostatistics), Sill (river), Sill (window), Sill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sill: Rhymezone
  20. sill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sill: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Sill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. sill: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sill: Castle Terms
  2. SILL: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  4. sill: Dictionary of Geology
  5. sill: Natural History Terms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sill: Urban Dictionary

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Sill: Construction Glossary
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See silling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
noun:  (construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
noun:  (geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
noun:  A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
noun:  (anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
noun:  (military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
noun:  (UK) A young herring.
noun:  The shaft or thill of a carriage.
adjective:  (rare, slang) Silly.
noun:  A surname.

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