WINDOWSILL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does windowsill mean? 

• WINDOWSILL (noun)
  The noun WINDOWSILL has 1 sense:

1. the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame

  Familiarity information: WINDOWSILL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDOWSILL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("windowsill" is a kind of...):

sill (structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure)

Holonyms ("windowsill" is a part of...):

window frame (the framework that supports a window)

 Context examples 

On examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of the bedroom.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With which words she hurried into the house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance; and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolately over the top of it towards the parlour window, where a muslin curtain partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screen or fan fastened on to the windowsill, a small table, and a great chair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that moment seated in awful state.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)