sile
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Is sile a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of sile?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.dialectal
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.dialectal
3. (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.dialectal
4. (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.dialectal
verb (English)
1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.UKdialectaltransitive
2. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.UKdialectalintransitive
3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.UKdialectalintransitive
4. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.UKdialectalintransitive
5. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To boil gently; simmer.UKdialectalintransitive
6. (intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England) To pour with rain.Examples: "Th' rain had siled daan day and neet."; "and so when there come on a long rain it fairly "siled" down a steady beautiful rain, so different from that of a thunder-rain, the latter fairly teeming down just as the milk was teemed from the pails into the sile. Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations."; "... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days."Northern-EnglandUKdialectalintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary