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Windowsill

/ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl/

The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame

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The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame

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windownoun	An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
window boxnoun	A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
windowmakingnoun	The manufacture of windows.
window screennoun	A mesh, made of metal wire, fibreglass, or other synthetic fibre, set in a frame and covering the opening of a window to keep leaves, debris, insects, birds, etc. from entering a building without blocking fresh airflow.
windanoun	Pronunciation spelling of window. [An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.]
wheel windownoun	A circular window having radiating mullions arranged like the spokes of a wheel.
windernoun	A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.
stop beadnoun	The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
fillisternoun	A plane for making a rabbet.
valvenoun	A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.
lattice windownoun	(architecture) A window with strips of metal holding small pieces of glass.
filisternoun	Alternative form of fillister. [(architecture) A rabbet/rebate for holding a sash window]
studworknoun	Upright timbers forming the framework of a wall.
shear wallnoun	(architecture) Alternative form of shearwall. [(architecture) An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building]
windrownoun	A row of cut grain or hay allowed to dry in a field.
gunwalenoun	The top edge of the hull of a nautical vessel, where it meets the deck.
shearwallnoun	(architecture) An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building
windowscreennoun	Alternative form of window screen. [A mesh, made of metal wire, fibreglass, or other synthetic fibre, set in a frame and covering the opening of a window to keep leaves, debris, insects, birds, etc. from entering a building without blocking fresh airflow.]
window treatmentnoun	(interior decoration, chiefly US, Canada) A set of decorations for a window, often including curtains or blinds.
wall platenoun	(construction) A piece of timber laid horizontally in or on a wall as a support for a girder, rafter, or joist.