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Gillion vs Sillion - What's the difference?

gillion | sillion |

In lang=en terms the difference between gillion and sillion

is that gillion is a thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion while sillion is the thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.

As a numeral gillion

is a thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US billion.

As a noun sillion is

the thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.

gillion

English

Numeral

(head)
  • (rare) A thousand million, proposed as an alternative to the (now little used) British milliard' and the (ambiguous, in the UK) US ' billion .
    • English cardinal numbers

    sillion

    English

    Noun

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  • (rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.
  • * 1877, , published 1918, verse 3,
    • ?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…
  • * 2006, Mark DeLong, Inetogether , Lulu.com, ISBN 141169175X, page 4,
    • My tiller cut easily in the moist ground, and the weeds of winter and early spring easily yielded to the tines. Gerard Manly Hopkins wrote that there is “no wonder” that “sheer plod makes plough down sillion' shine” — but the fact is, Mr. Hopkins, that there is in spring great wonder in the glimmer of “' sillion ” falling off the plough. And that wonder takes the “sheer plod” from my feet.
    That is quite the reverse for the gardener who churns under his failed crops in August. In dust, there is no sillion , and that work in hot summer sun is the sheerest of plod.