pantile

plural pantiles

1. A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S-shaped (ogee) cross section.

   All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.

   2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 103

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   The houses of the estancias shrank behind screens of poplar and eucalyptus. Some of the houses had pantile roofs, but most were of metal sheet, painted red.

   1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics, published 2003, page 8

   Some old, underfired clay pantiles might be damaged by button mosses rooting in cracks and fissures. But most post-war tiles are hard enough to withstand a bit of moss growth.

   2014 October 26, Jeff Howell, “Is the Japanese knotweed threat exaggerated? Our troubleshooter calls for calm about Japanese knotweed in the garden – and moss on the roof [print version: Don't panic about an overhyped invasion, 25 October 2014, p. P13]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property), archived from the original on 21 Jan 2015

2. obsoleteslangA hat.

   "So you are a Quaker, master, are you?" he added, "Well, I thought somehow, by the cut of your pantile, (hat) you was something or other in that way."

   1830, Charles Cochrane, The Journal of a Tour Made by Señor Juan de Vega, page 243

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   Hats or ordinary caps can be worn over them, and they are much used by the drivers of hack-carriages and horse-cars. Those who cannot afford a fur cap, ear-muff, or pantile, tie a handkerchief over their ears, […]

   1885, Good Words, volume 26, page 107

3. obsoleteA flat jam-covered cake.

   Of course unlike the officers we never got fresh bread, we got what came from barrels stored in the lower peak and under the steward's padlock. Pantiles baked brick hard, mouldy oats for skilly, dried peas for soup, embalmed pork and beef more fat and bone than meat.

   2013, Wayne Ward, Old Union, page 168

present singular third person pantiles · participle present pantiling · participle past pantiled · past pantiled

1. transitiveTo tile with pantiles.