pantile (pantil)

and a. [Also pentile; The Play House at Dorset Stairs is now pulling down, where there is to be sold old Timber fit for Building or Repairs, Old Boards, Bricks, Gla 'd Pantiles and Plain Tiles, also Fire Wood, at very reasonable rates. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 4. 2. A form of tile practically combining two of the original form, so shaped that its cro -sec Pantiles of the compound form. tion is a double curve, and so laid that the part of every tile that is convex upward overlaps the part of the next tile that is concave upward. In this form of so-called pan - tile each tile has a double curve, forming a tegula and imbrex both in one. Encyc. Brit ., XXIII. 388. II. a. [ pantile , n. Di enting chapels are said to have been often roofed with pantiles.] Di enting. Mr. Tickup's a good churchman, mark that! He is none of your occasional cattle, none of your hellish pan tile crew. Mrs. Cent livre, Gotham Election, i.