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pantile

[pan-tahyl]
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noun
  1. a roofing tile straight in its length but curved in its width to overlap the next tile.
  2. a tapered, semicylindrical roofing tile laid either convex side up to overlap flanking similar tiles laid concave side up or vice versa.
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Origin of pantile

First recorded in 1630–40; pan1 + tile
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Historical Examples

  • Pantile also means a flat cake with jam on it, given to boys at boarding-schools instead of pudding.

    The Slang Dictionary

    John Camden Hotten

British Dictionary definitions for pantile

pantile

noun
  1. a roofing tile, with an S-shaped cross section, laid so that the downward curve of one tile overlaps the upward curve of the adjoining tile
  2. a tapering roofing tile with a semicircular cross section, laid alternately so that the convex side of one tile overlaps the concave side of adjoining tiles
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Word Origin

C17: from pan 1 + tile
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