sile
/saɪl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
verb
To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
British usage; Transitive verb
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[…]"
Etymology
From Irish Síle and Scottish Gaelic Sìle.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb