sills

noun

plural of sill
as in beams

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  1. beams
  2. braces
  3. splints
  4. piles
  5. stakes
  6. timbers
  7. lumber
  8. posts
Noun
  • There is the Château d’Azay-le-Rideau on an island in the Loire Valley, plagued by flooding, as well as the opposite—receding water levels that expose its wooden, foundational beams to air and decomposition.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Having worked ahead of their schedule, Menon and Kutryk removed some of the beams holding the final iROSA in place on its temporary platform and rotated two launch locks that were used in its delivery on Dragon.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of beams
Noun
  • The braces Maisie gets at Shriners are high-tech and custom-made.
    — Stephanie Stahl, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Strnad keeps thumb braces in the case because the training staff would occasionally accidentally throw them out while cleaning the locker room.
    — Sam Jane, Denver Post, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of braces
Noun
  • Carlos Hernández, director of LayerLab, helped organize a nationwide effort to produce splints and immobilizers after the earthquakes.
    — Tibisay Zea, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026
  • The hospital's remaining staffers got creative, making beds and crutches out of wood and using clothes instead of gauze for makeshift splints.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
Definition of splints
Noun
  • When Anthropic goes public, the stock its seven cofounders hold stands to be worth up to $200 billion between them, carved up into seven nearly identical piles.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The birthday cakes appear pulled out of manila envelopes along with piles of pictures, as if being entered into evidence at a trial.
    — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • The discussion will examine the mechanics behind major sports transactions, including franchise acquisitions, minority ownership stakes, private equity investment and evolving financing structures.
    — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • The group, which operates across 21 cities and employs 480 people, has been on an acquisition spree over the past few years, nabbing both controlling and minority stakes in several fellow firms.
    — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of stakes
Noun
  • The spa The spa is a huge selling point, constructed from natural rock and timbers in the area.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
  • The splintered timbers, fastened together by rusted iron, emerged near an area where remains believed to be from the Warren Sawyer, a wooden schooner lost in 1884, have been found before.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of timbers
Noun
  • The tariffs have hurt Maine because so much of the wood and the lumber that is grown and cut here in Maine is actually shipped up north to Canada to be processed, and then what it is processed as is shipped back across the United States.
    — Dustin DeSoto, Vox, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Pine pulpwood consists of trees ground into paper and packaging, while pine sawtimber is made up of larger trees cut into lumber for homebuilding.
    — Kevin Williams, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of lumber
Noun
  • Many of the political posts iwere made or altered with artificial intelligence.
    — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Gebala has frequently offered updates on Maya’s long recovery in posts to Facebook, including a recent excursion to see the rock band Foo Fighters and celebrate her 13th birthday.
    — Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of posts
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