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sash(2) (iou) and billow 2, noun (oh)


sash(2) (iou)



sash noun2. L17.
[Alt. of CHASSIS, taken as pl.]
a. A usu. wooden frame fitted with one or more panes of glass forming a window or part of a window; esp. such a frame or either of two such frames which may be slid up and down in grooves and held by cords and weights in a window aperture. L17.
b. A window frame covered with paper or linen. L17-E19.
c. A glazed light of a glasshouse or Garden frame. E18.
A wooden frame in which a thin narrow saw blade is stretched. US. L19.
Comb.: sash bar: dividing the glass in a sash; sash cord a strong cord attaching a sash-weight to a sash; sash cramp: used for clamping sashes during gluing; sash-door: fitted with a glazed sash in the upper part; a French window; sash frame: fixed in the opening of a wall to receive the sash or sashes of a window; sash saw (a) a small tenon saw used in making sashes; (b) US = sense 2 above; sash tool a glazier's or painter's narrow brush suitable for work on sashes; sash weight: attached to either of the two cords of a sash to counterbalance it and hold it at any height; sash-window a window with a sash or sashes, esp. one with two sliding sashes.
sashless adjective M19.

billow 2, noun (oh)



2 n [C usually plural]
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: Probably from Old Norse bylgja]
a moving cloud or mass of something such as smoke or cloth
literary a wave, especially a very large one