Meaning

(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
4. (now chiefly dialectal) A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
5. (transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
6. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
7. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
8. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To go; pass.

Example Sentences

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.

As the rain siled down outside, we discussed David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane – France's victory in the 1998 World Cup was fresh in their minds.

... unaware of the pouring freezing rain which siled down and saturated him and which ran down his lank hair and over his cold face. The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle. He stood outside in the dark[…]

Word Forms

• siles
• syle
• cyle
• siling
• siled

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When Should You Use Sile?

Use sile when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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