sills

IPA: sˈɪɫz

Examples of "sills" in Sentences

The sills are bolted to the masonry or concrete foundation.
Anything you put on the sills is going to wind up on the floor.
Over the sills is a windlass, with a rope coming down to fasten your hands to.
Oh, and no overhanging balconies and window sills that nail anyone over 5 ft. tall with a concrete wallop.
You lay out your foundation by putting thick pieces of oak called "sills" on the ground in the shape of your house.
The sills were the regulation spearlength; Fax had not given in to the recent practice of diminishing the protective wall.
Here's a reminder that if your home was built before 1978, the trim and sills around those windows might be covered in lead paint.
The chief objection to stabling cattle in the _body_ of the barn is, the continual decay of the most important timbers, such as sills, sleepers,
Probe visible wood structural members such as sills, joists, beams, and columns, with a screwdriver, pocket knife or ice pick, to be sure wood is solid and free from decay and wood boring insects.
In town these "sills" are nailed to posts which have been driven eight feet into the ground; but on the prairie are simply laid on the flat; on to the sills come the joists, planks 2 x 6 placed on edge across, two feet apart.
A particularly evocative image, titled "Roma," presents a police lineup of massive stone blocks, a spouting fountain, a tree, a giant foot and a floating book, arrayed along a narrow horizontal base, like the stone sills that frame Renaissance Madonnas.