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Tiler

Tiler \Til"er\, n. [Of uncertain origin, but probably from E. tile, n.] A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons. [Written also tyler.]

Tiler

Tiler \Til"er\, n. A man whose occupation is to cover buildings with tiles.
--Bancroft.

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tiler

n. 1 A person who sets tile. 2 (label en freemasonry) A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

WordNet
tiler

n. a worker who lays tile

Usage examples of "tiler".

I named, Grover Tiler, whom I sincerely believe to be behind the Purple Dragon, is a recluse, and a wealthy recluse.

Colonel John Renwick, as well as Grover Tiler, there was an unconfirmed rumor in the underworld today that Tiler really was behind the mysterious Purple Dragon, of which we have been hearing so much of late.

Collected by Falcan, Tiler had intended to flee with that after wiping out all who even knew of the fortune or knew he was alive.

If not for me, George Tiler would have no money to spend in the taverns and brothels that he makes his home.

We came here because I had met Nick Tiler a few years earlier where I lived.

Someone should explain to George Tiler that letting a woman answer for his bad craft was cowardly, and that abandoning her to be thrown in the gutter after a day in the stocks was despicable.

With a sweeping swing, he crashed the stunned tiler up against the door.

It bound her to the tiler for five years in return for ten shillings and the use of a cottage.

There was no reason for Mortimer to suspect that Joan the tiler was the same Joan who could bear witness to his worst crimes, and give substance to the rumors about them.

He wanted to walk the city lanes without looking over his shoulder, and when he reached his home every night he wanted to make love to a pretty tiler with sun-bronzed skin and silken hair and an indomitable spirit.

He was taking ale with the tiler when she finished, so she ambled over to the property where the brother who was a potter plied his craft.

She prayed that he understood how happy Joan the tiler had been with Rhys Mason.

But when days passed and no riders followed from Westminster in pursuit of the tiler seen with Guy Leighton that day, the mood still persisted.

Joan Tiler was completely gone, and the daughter of Marcus de Brecon had been resurrected, in all her glory.

When she arrived at the place, she waited long to meet the person she most hated in the world, but she had not the patience to wait till her rival came out of the chamber where the feast was being held, so at last she determined to use a ladder that a tiler, who was at work at the roof, had left there whilst he went to dinner.