Sillion
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈsɪlɪən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sillion is a noun meaning (rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.
Meaning
(rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.
Example Sentences
No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion / Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, / Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.
1951, Hazelton Spencer, British Literature, Heath, page 827, The hard, plodding work of plowing (of the priest) makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion.
1968, Wendell Stacy Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet As Victorian, Cornell University Press, page 87, The freely flying windhover, after all, has something essential in common with the sillion of a plowed field and the broken embers of a…
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shitton, sullow, plowsole, sowling, selion, sole.
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