sillon
See also: sillón
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sillon (plural sillons)
- (military, historical) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
- 1767, Thomas Simes, The Military Medley:
- Sillon, is a work raised it up in ropes very hard for an in the middle of a foss
References edit
- “sillon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French seillon, from seille + -on, seiller.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sillon m (plural sillons)
- (agriculture) furrow
- groove, fissure
- sillons d’un disque ― record grooves
- le sillon alpin ― the sillon alpin (a long valley in the French Alps north-east of Grenoble, or the region surrounding it)
- (urban studies) corridor
- le sillon lorrain ― the Lorraine corridor
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Further reading edit
- “sillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.