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skillion

[ skil-yuhn ]

noun

, Australian.
  1. a lean-to serving as a room or a shed.


skillion

/ ˈskɪlɪən /

noun

    1. a part of a building having a lower, esp sloping, roof; lean-to
    2. ( as modifier )

      a skillion roof

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of skillion1

First recorded in 1860–65; alteration of skilling, originally dialect (S England), Middle English skyling; sense suggests kinship with dialectal scale “hut, shed” (from Old Norse skāli; ), but phonetic development obscure; -ing 3, shiel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of skillion1

C19: from English dialect skilling outhouse
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Example Sentences

Jack Drew camped in a skillion room behind his printing office, and had his meals at the Royal.

I noticed the storm had taken a sheet of iron off the skillion, and supposed he'd sleep at the Royal that night.

Next day I found one of the skillion rooms scrubbed out and a bed fixed up for me.

We walked together towards the Union Office, where I had a camp in the skillion-room at the back.

She went to her bedroom—a small, low, slab skillion, built on to the end of the house—and fell on her knees by the bunk.

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