Pantile

Quick meaning: Pantile is a noun meaning A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S-shaped (ogee) cross section.

Meaning

A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S-shaped (ogee) cross section.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To tile with pantiles.
2. (obsolete, slang) A hat.
3. (obsolete) A flat jam-covered cake.

Example Sentences

All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.

"So you are a Quaker, master, are you?" he added, "Well, I thought somehow, by the cut of your pantile, (hat) you was something or other in that way."

The houses of the estancias shrank behind screens of poplar and eucalyptus. Some of the houses had pantile roofs, but most were of metal sheet, painted red.

Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.

Word Forms

• pantiles
• pantiling
• pantiled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pentile, pentroof, rotunda, pelta, imbrication, monotile.

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