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ˈroof-tile
Also 5 roff tyle, rofe-, rof tile; 6 roofe tyle.
[f. roof n.]
A tile for covering the top ridge of a roof; a ridge-tile. In mod. use, a tile used as a roofing material; a roofing tile. Also fig.
1426–7Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 65 Also paid for a quartern roff tyle,..xv d. 1477Act 17 Edw. IV, c. 3 Whityng & anelyng de tewle appellez pleintile autrement nosmez thaktile, roftile ou crestile, cornertile & guttertile. 1546Acc. St. Dunstan's, Cant. (1885) 68 For playne tylle, iiij s. viij d.; for rwffe tylle, xj d. 1580Hollyband Treas. French Tong, Enfestau, or festiére, a roofe tile. 1611Cotgr., Faistiere, a ridge-tyle, Creast-tile, Roofe-tile. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 240 Roof Tiles..are laid upon the..ridge of the Roof. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Tyle, Ridge, Roof, or Crease Tyles, are those used to cover the Ridges of Houses. 1793J. Woodforde Diary 3 Mar. (1929) IV. 12 It blowed off many Tiles from the old part of the House, some Roof Tiles. 1936Discovery May 142/2 The dangerous sprinkling of snow over the ‘roof tile’ slabs [of Mount Everest]. 1940‘Gun Buster’ Return via Dunkirk i. i. 11 The house was its old self even to the last brick, the last roof-tile. 1957Jrnl. Geol. LXV. 239/1 The deeply trenched roof-tile shapes of figure 8 and the delicate fern-frond pattern..shown in figure 9 are two of several different shapes exposed in a single quarry of that area. |