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