Sillon vs Sillion - What's the difference?
sillon | sillion |
(military, historical) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
(rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.
* 1877, , published 1918, verse 3,
* 1951, Hazelton Spencer, British Literature , Heath,
* 1968, Wendell Stacy Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet As Victorian , Cornell University Press,
* 2006, Mark DeLong, Inetogether , Lulu.com, ISBN 141169175X,
As nouns the difference between sillon and sillion
is that sillon is a work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it while sillion is the thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.sillon
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Crabb)
sillion
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Noun
(-)- ?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.
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 .
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…
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.
