sile

/saɪl/

noun 8verb 5name 1

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Alternative spelling of Sheila.

noun

A column; pillar.

A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.

The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.

A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.

verb

To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.

To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.

To settle down; calm or compose oneself.

To go; pass.

To boil gently; simmer.

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Th' rain had siled daan day and neet.

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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 pail

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... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days.

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