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English sieve
Answer for the clue "English sieve ", 4 letters:
sile
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
See River Sile for the river in Italy Síle is also a girl's name in Irish , usually anglicized as Sheila . Şile is a city and district in Istanbul , Turkey . According to the 2007 census, the population of the district was 25,169, of which 9,831 lived in ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context now chiefly dialectal English) A column; pillar. 2 (context now chiefly dialectal English) A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building. 3 (context now chiefly dialectal English) The foot or lower part of a couple ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Syle \Syle\, n. [See Sile a young herring.] (Zo["o]l.) A young herring ( Clupea harengus ). [Also written sile .] But our folk call them syle, and nought but syle, And when they're grown, why then we call them herring. --J. Ingelow.
Usage examples of sile.
He pedaled awkwardly while Sile sat behind him, trying to look respectable for his sake.
For some reason Sile would not let him accompany her to her lodging house, but he could at least see her safely as far as her street.
Over her shoulder he glimpsed the headline on the Evening Mail but it meant nothing to him, not with Sile so close and the feel of her still tingling on his fingers.
After eighteen months in a brothel, Sile Dully had seen enough to know that many a romance which blossomed in love and lust withered in guilt and duty.
For such men Sile had become expert at simulating the lost rapture of youth, but it was a rapture life had denied her.
Ned felt obliged to explain the reason for their journey, so he told Sile about the gunrunning incident and his part in it.
Yet Sile had entrusted Ned with a shocking revelation and obviously thought he would be man enough to understand.
He ducked into the small timber outbuilding with Sile close behind him.
She would have this much, Sile resolved, if she never had anything else!
With a sense of relief he gave himself over to passion, a passion Sile met and amplified.
When Sile lifted the seat the customary straw mattress and flour-sack sheeting were not stored inside, but there was a tattered shawl hanging on a peg on the back of the door.
As Sile folded the shawl to pad the bench she thought briefly of her comfortable room at Mrs.
In the dim light filtering through the tattered curtains Sile read his eyes and knew he could not wait any longer.
Hidden within the veil of her hair, Sile sucked him with a slow hot mouth.
It was impossible for Sile to slip away in the afternoon or evening, but in the early mornings she could leave the house for a few hours while everyone else was asleep.