sill

IPA: sˈɪɫ

(architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
(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.
(geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
(military, historical) The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
(UK) A young herring.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
A surname.

Examples of "sill" in Sentences

There was a dining chair placed in front of the sill, as if the sill was a desk.
On the sill was a plastic paper-ticket dispenser like they use at a meat-market counter.
Your wall will be here and look, right over here is where it goes through the sill, which is that plate.
Apart from the floor and a writing desk, every horizontal surface, including the window sill, is stacked a foot high with files and reports.
Wolf, if you look real quickly over my shoulder, perhaps you see what they call the sill plates that help to hold up these decks, these porches that they call them here in Chicago.
Blinds were drawn in the window behind the desk, perhaps to reduce the glare on the computer screen, and leaning against the sill was a scarred and battered brown leather briefcase.