"sillion" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Revived by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover; ultimately related to French sillon (“furrow”).",
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          "text": "1951, Hazelton Spencer, British Literature, Heath, page 827,\nThe hard, plodding work of plowing (of the priest) makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion."
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          "text": "1968, Wendell Stacy Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet As Victorian, Cornell University Press, page 87,\nThe freely flying windhover, after all, has something essential in common with the sillion of a plowed field and the broken embers of a…"
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          "text": "2006, Mark DeLong, Inetogether, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4,\nMy tiller cut easily in the moist ground, and the weeds of winter and early spring easily yielded to the tines. Gerard Manly Hopkins wrote that there is “no wonder” that “sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine” — but the fact is, Mr. Hopkins, that there is in spring great wonder in the glimmer of “sillion” falling off the plough. And that wonder takes the “sheer plod” from my feet.\nThat is quite the reverse for the gardener who churns under his failed crops in August. In dust, there is no sillion, and that work in hot summer sun is the sheerest of plod."
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        "The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow."
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        "(rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow."
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          "text": "1951, Hazelton Spencer, British Literature, Heath, page 827,\nThe hard, plodding work of plowing (of the priest) makes the plowshare shine as it goes down the row turning up the sillion."
        },
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          "text": "1968, Wendell Stacy Johnson, Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poet As Victorian, Cornell University Press, page 87,\nThe freely flying windhover, after all, has something essential in common with the sillion of a plowed field and the broken embers of a…"
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          "text": "2006, Mark DeLong, Inetogether, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4,\nMy tiller cut easily in the moist ground, and the weeds of winter and early spring easily yielded to the tines. Gerard Manly Hopkins wrote that there is “no wonder” that “sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine” — but the fact is, Mr. Hopkins, that there is in spring great wonder in the glimmer of “sillion” falling off the plough. And that wonder takes the “sheer plod” from my feet.\nThat is quite the reverse for the gardener who churns under his failed crops in August. In dust, there is no sillion, and that work in hot summer sun is the sheerest of plod."
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        "(rare) The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow."
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