The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tile \Tile\, n. [OE. tile, tigel, AS. tigel, tigol, fr. L. tegula, from tegere to cover. See Thatch, and cf. Tegular.]
A plate, or thin piece, of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, for floors, for drains, and often for ornamental mantel works.
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(Arch.)
A small slab of marble or other material used for flooring.
A plate of metal used for roofing.
(Metal.) A small, flat piece of dried earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.
A draintile.
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A stiff hat. [Colloq.]
--Dickens.Tile drain, a drain made of tiles.
Tile earth, a species of strong, clayey earth; stiff and stubborn land. [Prov. Eng.]
Tile kiln, a kiln in which tiles are burnt; a tilery.
Tile ore (Min.), an earthy variety of cuprite.
Tile red, light red like the color of tiles or bricks.
Tile tea, a kind of hard, flat brick tea. See Brick tea, under Brick.
Usage examples of "tile kiln".
Chaka smeared a trace of the dropping sample on an analyzer sheet, and ran it into tile kiln.