Been watching some of the Tommy Walsh stuff recorded off Quest. If only I could find out where he got his expanding metal lathe, I'd have no more space problems. Anyone got any other good DIY pronouncation clangers ? Simon.
Blimey -- I've seen that so many times, I always assumed that it was a technical building term what I, a mere punter, didn't know about (even though I knew it was referring to the things I always referred to as "sills").
A bit like the use of "x off" (as in "oakwood cills 2 off") (or even "2 of", which I've seen recently), instead of "2 oakwood sills". I presume that that usage originated in the factories / smithies / joineries, where the tradesman was given an order for 'x' number of widgets off his lathe (or whatever), and that it spread from there to the warehouses. (or is it "off the shelf"? Nah - that wouldn't make sense.)
Sigh: You can tell it's pouring down outside, can't you :-)
A bit off topic- I used to be in fire protection. I had a sign written van. Two people walked past my van, one said to the other "Fire protection, how do you protect a fire"?
Horizontal timber (usually called a cill-beam, ground-cill, or sole-piece or -plate) at the bottom of a timber-framed wall into which posts and studs are tenoned. A cill-wall is a low wall of brick or stone supporting the cill-beam. In timber-framed construction, an interrupted cill runs between main posts and is tenoned into them.
Lower horizontal projecting element below an aperture (e.g. doorway or window), to throw water off the wall below.
Lower horizontal member of a door-or window-frame.
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