sile

British  

/ saɪl /

verb

1. dialect (tr) to pour with rain

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Etymology

Origin of sile

probably from Old Norse; compare Swedish and Norwegian dialect sila to pass through a strainer

Example Sentences

Poseidon may carry as many as ten separately targetable warheads, and Minuteman perhaps three, along with decoy chaff and penetration devices to fool enemy anti-ballistic mis sile systems.

From Time Magazine Archive

Offshore stood the helicopter carrier Jwo Jitna and the attack-transport Talladega, each carrying additional marines, plus two destroyers and the mis sile light cruiser Galvston, whose six-inch guns provided heavy artillery support.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington may have been unduly suspicious about the mis sile issue.

From Time Magazine Archive

You see its made up of old Whigs, Abolitionists and free sile Dimmycrats.

From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba

He worked over the sile every year, and never planted the same crops in the same places.

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth