Shilf
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shilf is a noun meaning (dialect) Coarse shale or slate fragments.
Meaning
(dialect) Coarse shale or slate fragments.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) straw or reeds.
Example Sentences
Below the statum of tin ground is a bed of stiff clay called shilf or shale.
Reet is that shilf we have on older houses here. They do take it off sometimes and change to new.
Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump […]
Five-and-twenty of them are tied together and laid at the depth of one fathom at most on sunk posts, as the sevrugas go to shallow places and among the shilf.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bedstraw, straw, shass, shruff, strammel, strommel.
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