Sill vs Swill - What's the difference?
sill | swill |
(architecture) (also window sill ) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window.
(construction) A horizontal, structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings or lying on the ground in earth-fast construction and bearing the upright portion of a frame. Also spelled cill. Also called a ground plate, groundsill, sole, sole-plate, mudsill. An interrupted sill fits between posts instead of being below and supporting the posts in timber framing.
(geology) A horizontal layer of igneous rock between older rock beds.
* 1980 , U.S. Government Printing Office,
A piece of timber across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose
any disgusting or distasteful liquid
anything disgusting or worthless
a large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow
(Ultimate Frisbee) A badly-thrown pass
Inexpensive beer
to eat or drink greedily or to excess
* Smollett
*1913 ,
*:If you can give me no more than twenty-five shillings, I'm sure I'm not going to buy you pork-pie to stuff, after you've swilled a bellyful of beer.
to wash something by flooding with water
* Shakespeare
to inebriate; to fill with drink.
* Milton
to feed pigs swill
* 1921 , (Nephi Anderson), Dorian Chapter 8
*:"Carlia, have you swilled the pigs?"
As nouns the difference between sill and swill
is that sill is (also window sill) A horizontal slat which forms the base of a window while swill is a mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.As a verb swill is
to eat or drink greedily or to excess.sill
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) sille, selle, .Noun
(en noun)- She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill .
Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 1119
- Minor palingenetic magmas probably were generated at this time and intruded the mantling rocks in the form of small sills and apophyses;
- the nasal sill
Usage notes
Usually spelled cill when used in the context of canal or river engineering.Derived terms
* mudsill * groundsill * window sillQuotations
* (English Citations of "sill")Etymology 2
Compare sile.Etymology 3
Compare thill.Anagrams
* ----swill
English
Noun
(en noun)- I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill .
- This new TV show is a worthless load of swill .
- He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
Verb
(en verb)- Well-dressed people, of both sexes, devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider.
- As fearfully as doth a galled rock / O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, / Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean.
- I should be loth / To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence / Of such late wassailers.