sillon
See also: sillón
English
Noun
sillon (plural sillons)
- (military, historical) A work raised in the middle of a wide ditch, to defend it.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sillon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.jɔ̃/
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Derived terms
Further reading
- “sillon” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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