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- noun rare The thick,
voluminous , and shinysoil turned over by aplow .
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Examples
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
“The Windhover” : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Whether you are going to go the way of the plow, polished by constant rubbing through the soil (sillion) or the more dramatic and probably painful embers cracking open to reveal their glowing interior beneath the ashy outsides, breaking up is hard to do.
Windhover 3 2005
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
The Windhover 2005
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Windhover 3 2005
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah, my dear,
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah, my dear,
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No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Whether you are going to go the way of the plow, polished by constant rubbing through the soil (sillion) or the more dramatic and probably painful embers cracking open to reveal their glowing interior beneath the ashy outsides, breaking up is hard to do.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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