sillion

Meaning

Noun

The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.

Origin

Revived by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover; ultimately related to French sillon ("furrow").

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