Jill vs. Sill — What's the Difference?

Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian (Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian.

A horizontal member that bears the upright portion of a frame.

Variant of gill4.

A windowsill.

To masturbate.

(Geology) A sheet of igneous rock formed by the intrusion of magma between existing strata.

A female ferret.

A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.

Misspelling of gill

(construction) A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.

A pelvic protector, a woman’s equivalent of a man’s jock.

(geology) A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.

A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill.

A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.

(anatomy) A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.

The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.

(UK) A young herring.

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

Silly.

The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like.

The shaft or thill of a carriage.

A young herring.

Structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure

(geology) a flat (usually horizontal) mass of igneous rock between two layers of older sedimentary rock