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skysill en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈskaɪˌsɪl/

Etymology

From sky + sill.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, poetic, rare) Horizon.
   • They first appeared as two bumps rolling over the skysill, which quickly proved to be the connected outer points of a low ridge. 1995, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars:
   • Rooftops stagger the skysill. Clouds coast from nowhere to Nowhere as row upon row below Planetrees shuttle the moted Air. 1992, International Poetry Society, Orbis: Issues 84–87:
   • When the sun sinks below the skysill (his word for horizon) there is most often in England the gloom of mistiness. 1960, William Turner Levy, William Barnes: the man and the poems:

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Relateds

skyline