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davanzale — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • rack noun A framework or set of shelves, bars, or hooks used for holding, storing, or displaying things.
  • sill noun The horizontal ledge at the base of a window or door frame.
  • windowsill noun The horizontal ledge at the bottom of a window frame.

Senses

davanzale is used for these senses in English:

  • rack (slang, vulgar) A woman's breasts.
  • sill (architecture, also "window sill") A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
  • windowsill (architectural element) The horizontal member protruding from the base of a window frame.

rack — full definition

  1. noun A framework or set of shelves, bars, or hooks used for holding, storing, or displaying things.
  2. noun A frame for carrying luggage or equipment on a vehicle, such as the roof rack of a car.
  3. noun Historically, a device with a ratchet used to torture people by stretching their limbs.
  4. noun A bar with teeth that meshes with a gear (a pinion) to convert rotary motion into straight-line motion, or works with a pawl to allow movement in only one direction.
  5. verb To cause severe strain, pain, or suffering.

sill — full definition

  1. noun The horizontal ledge at the base of a window or door frame.
  2. noun (geology) A flat sheet of igneous rock that has forced its way between existing layers of rock underground.

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