Pronunciations
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/siːl/
Verb
To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
Usage- Transitive
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It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
Noun
A ceiling.
Usage- Poetic
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[…] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]
Verb
To set a higher bound.