Obs. Also 6–7 soyle. [a. OF. soil, also soel, suel, sueil (mod.F. seuil) sill, threshold:—L. solium seat.]

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  1.  = SILL sb.1 2, 3.

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1447.  Will of Hen. VI., in Carter, King’s Coll. Chapel, 12. A closette … unther the soil of the yle windows.

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1533.  in Bayley, Hist. Tower, App. I. xvii. There ys wrought all the soyles and jawmes of twoo greate wyndowes.

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1637.  in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), I. 194. Raysing the 4 chappell windows … and putting in soyles of freestone.

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1663.  Gerbier, Counsel, 77. Door cases, the Post … being six and five Inches head and soyle.

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1679.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., ix. 172. Soils … are either Ground Sells … or Window Sells.

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  attrib.  1634.  in Archaeologia, XXXV. 197. In the kitchen … two soyle bords for wyndowes.

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  2.  A lintel of a door or window.

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1519.  Horman, Vulg., 138. I hytte my heede ageynst the soyle or transumpt.

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