sillion means the thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
sillion is pronounced /ˈsɪlɪən/.
Why “sillion” is a great word
SILLION — [Noun] The thick, voluminous, and shiny ridge of soil freshly overturned by a plow. Revived by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 poem 'The Windhover' (published posthumously in 1918); ultimately related to French sillon ("furrow"). Unlike "furrow" (the trench cut by a plow) or "clod" (a hard, isolated lump), sillion is the substantive, gleaming spoil itself. It is the heavy, dark curl of earth fracturing the morning light, the clean mineral scent of the underworld brought to the surface, and the startling, wet shine of the world momentarily inverted—soil transformed into a sacrament of labor before it settles back into common ground.
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- The thick, voluminous, and shiny soil turned over by a plow.“No wonder of it: shéer plód makes plough down sillion / Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, / Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion.”