window-solen.
/ˈwɪndə(ʊ)səʊl/, U.S. /ˈwɪndoʊˌsoʊl/ Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).
= windowsill n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > window-sill
sill1428
leaning-place1530
leaning-board1533
window-sole1570
leaning1663
stool1663
window ledge1679
window stoola1684
windowsill1703
window board1722
window shelf1795
window-bottom1820
window stone1822
1570–80 in J. Raine Fabric Rolls York Minster (1859) 118 For lyme for the masons to sett the wyndowe sole with, 16 d.
1591 in Archaeologia (1913) 64 370 iii midell peeces of windo sole.
1737 A. Ramsay Coll. Scots Prov. Ded. May never a window-sole..be without them.
1788 C. Hutton Treat. Mensuration (ed. 2) v. 640 In the first column, are collected together the base, facias, window soles, jambs and head of door, blocking course and chimney tops.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. vi. 100 In fashioning the soft red sandstone into door-pieces, and window-soles.
1898 J. J. H. Burgess Tang 29 Here upo da window-sole or ower yondru.
1948 Forfar Disp. 21 Sept. She puit it oot on the winda-sole tae cuil and it disappeared.
1990 J. A. Begg in J. A. Begg & J. Reid Dipper & Three Wee Deils 68 Deep inby the windae-sole Lay driven pouthert snaw.
2020 I. Howat in Eiks an Ens Newslet. (Scots Lang. Soc.) Oct. 4 Ower shin the ootwales Ur a bittie watter In the windae-sole.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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