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ceil

verb
/siːl/

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).

  1. derived from cēlō — “to hide”

Definitions

  1. To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or…

    To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.

    • It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.

  2. A ceiling.

    • […] The mossy sward / Beneath their feet, their carpet was, / An azure ceil, the sky above; […]

  3. Abbreviation of ceiling.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To set a higher bound.

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