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trip sill

trip sill noun: a timber placed across the bottom of the sluiceway in a splash dam, against which rest the planks by which the dam is closed.

Noun

trip sill (plural trip sills)

  1. A timber placed across the bottom of the sluiceway in a splash dam, against which rest the planks by which the dam is closed.

Forms of trip sill

pluraltrip sills

Questions about trip sill

What does trip sill mean?
Trip sill means a timber placed across the bottom of the sluiceway in a splash dam, against which rest the planks by which the dam is closed.
What part of speech is trip sill?
Trip sill is a noun.
What is the plural of trip sill?
The plural of trip sill is trip sills.

Words near trip sill in the dictionary

  1. trip over one's own two feet
  2. trip over oneself
  3. trip recorder
  4. trip recorders
  5. trip sat
  6. trip sill
  7. trip sills
  8. trip sit
  9. trip sits
  10. trip sitter
  11. trip sitters

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