Alternative spelling of Sheila

(now chiefly dialectal) A column; pillar. / (now chiefly dialectal) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.

(transitive, UK dialectal) To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter. / (intransitive, UK dialectal) To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.

A sieve. / A strainer or colander for liquids / That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.

A young herring.

plural of sile

simple past tense and past participle of sile

present participle of sile

A region in central Europe, now chiefly in Poland, with small portions in the Czech Republic and Germany, from early modernity until 1945 predominantly German-speaking with Slavic-speaking minorities (and local majorities).

The absence of any sound. / The act of refraining from speaking. / Form of meditative worship practiced by the Society of Friends (Quakers); meeting for worship.