ceil

[seel]

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verb (used with object)

to overlay (the ceiling of a building or room) with wood, plaster, etc.
to provide with a ceiling.

Origin of ceil

1400–50; late Middle English celen to cover, to panel < ?

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Related Words for ceiled

stuffed, coated, stuff, cover, fill, faced, encrusted, sheathed, brushed, wadded, quilt, overlay, wad, bush, face, reinforce, sheath, panel, incrust, encrust

Examples from the Web for ceiled

Historical Examples of ceiled

It was a bare place, a shed which had been a stable and was now floored and ceiled.
The Christian
Hall Caine
Her eyes sought the brown beams that ceiled the long room. '
Privy Seal
Ford Madox Ford
With all our ceiled houses, let us not forget our grandmothers' kitchens!
The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
Various
With all our ceiled houses, let us not forget our grandmothers kitchens!
The Minister's Wooing
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The sides were then ceiled and roofed, and it served its purpose of a trading-post.
The Old Santa Fe Trail
Henry Inman

British Dictionary definitions for ceiled

ceil

verb (tr)

to line (a ceiling) with plaster, boarding, etc
to provide with a ceiling

Word Origin for ceil

C15 celen, perhaps back formation from ceiling

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