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Definition of Skillion
1. Noun. (architecture) A room built against the back of another building, having a separate roof. ¹
2. Noun. Any indefinitely large number. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skillion
1. a sloping roof [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skillion
Literary usage of Skillion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. York Deeds by Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds (1892)
"... wife now possess & Dwell on which is Excepted dureing ye Term of their Natural
lives & After their decease ye sd Samuel skillion his heirs & Assignes to ..."
2. York Deeds by Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds (1887)
"... where now the sayd Lewis, and skillion, are Inhabited, & is bounded by these
two on each side, & is fronted betweene these by the sault sea water/ ..."
3. York Deeds by Maine Historical Society, Maine Genealogical Society (1884- ), York County (Me.). Register of Deeds (1894)
"... Nathaniel Wallis of Cascobay for and in Consideration of Ten Pounds & five
Shillings in hand paid, have bargained & sold unto John skillion of the same ..."
4. The Master Masons of Chartres by John James (1990)
"Over the inside aisle he decided to repeat the arrangement used in the west where
a simple skillion roof covered the attic room behind the triforium arcade. ..."
5. The Master Masons of Chartres by John James (1990)
"Over the inside aisle he decided to repeat the arrangement used in the west where
a simple skillion roof covered the attic room behind the triforium arcade. ..."
6. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly (1888)
"There was a skillion behind which could be filled np with a bank for Talgai. ...
I told him to bring his blankets into the skillion and settle np his bunk, ..."
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