sill
/sɪl/ sustantivo C1En español: lámina
- A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window. · She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
- A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
- A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
- A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
- A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull. · the nasal sill
- The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
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He opened the window and made the mark on the sill to give an idea of how the murderer escaped.
“And look at this!” He held the lamp down and illuminated a smudge of blood like the mark of a boot-sole upon the wooden sill.
“The open window, the blood on the sill, the queer card, the marks of boots in the corner, the gun!”
Do you tell me that in that time the guilty person managed to make footmarks in the corner, open the window, mark the sill with blood, take the wedding ring off the dead man’s finger, and all the rest of it?
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