sile

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Sheila.

noun

1. (dialectal)A column; pillar.
2. (dialectal)A beam; rafter; one of the principal rafters of a building.
3. (dialectal)The foot or lower part of a couple or rafter; base.
4. (dialectal)A roof rafter or couple, usually one of a pair.
5. A sieve.
6. A strainer or colander for liquids
7. That which is sifted or strained, hence, settlings; sediment; filth.
8. A young herring.

verb

1. (UK, dialectal, transitive)To strain, as milk; pass through a strainer or anything similar; filter.
2. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To flow down; drip; drop; fall; sink.
3. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To settle down; calm or compose oneself.
4. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To go; pass.
5. (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To boil gently; simmer.
6. (Northern-England, UK, dialectal, intransitive)To pour with rain.

   “Th' rain had siled daan day and neet.”

   “and so when there come on a long rain it fairly "siled" down a steady beautiful rain, so different from that of a thunder-rain, the latter fairly teeming down just as the milk was teemed from the pails into the sile. Teeming and siling , though much akin, were two very different operations.”

   “... ya know what a wet un last year was, and how the rain siled down for days and days.”

   “As the rain siled down outside, we discussed David Beckham, Ronaldo and Zidane – France's victory in the 1998 World Cup was fresh in their minds.”

   “... unaware of the pouring freezing rain which siled down and saturated him and which ran down his lank hair and over his cold face. The gun dropped limply from his hand onto the soggy grass, where it hissed as steam rose from the hot muzzle. He stood outside in the dark[…]”