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tilestone|ˈtaɪlstəʊn|
Forms: see tile and stone.
[OE. tiᵹelstán, f. tiᵹele, tile n.1 + stán, stone n. Cf. MHG. ziegelstein.]
†1. A brick or tile; the material of bricks or tiles: = tile n.1 1, 2. Obs.
a1100Gloss. in Eng. Studien XI. 66 Hec imbrex, tiᵹel⁓stan. 1382Wyclif Gen. xi. 3 Cometh, & make we tile [1388 tiel] stoons, and sethe we hem with fier. 1388― Isa. ix. 10 Tijl stoonys fellen doun, but we schulen bilde with square stoonys. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 233 Oon ston was of marbole,..that other was of tyleston. c1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 82 Tak a tile stone or a scarþe of a potte, and putte it in þe middez of brynnyng colez. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 21 Pyrrhus..was killed by a..woman with a Tile stone. 1600Nashe Summer's Last Will in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 25 For fear of wearing out my lord's tile-stones with your hobnails. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. iv. §20 Dry them on a Fire-Shovel or Tilestone or in an Oven.
2. Geol. Any laminated flagstone, splitting into layers thicker than slate, suitable for roofing-tiles; spec. a group of sandstones forming the transition beds between the Silurian and Devonian systems.
1668Charleton Onomast. 242 Saxum Fissile..Slate or Tyle-stone. 1719Strachey in Phil. Trans. XXX. 971 At Stanton they have..an Iron-Gritt or grey Tile-Stone, which is a Fore-runner of the Coal-Clives. 1778Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), Norton under Hambden-Hill, Som...has large quarries of free-stone,..as well as of tile-stone, &c. 1842Sedgwick in Hudson Guide Lakes (1843) 213 Three groups—the lowest characterized by red flagstone (or ‘tilestone’). 1876A. H. Green Phys. Geol. ii. §7 If the layers are thin enough for roofing purposes the rock is called a Tilestone. |