sillion

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Definition of sillion in English English dictionary

The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow

That 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.

Etymology

() Coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover ; perhaps from French sillon (“furrow”).