ˈridge-tile
Also ridge tile (5 rigge, 7–8 tyle).
[ridge n.1]
A tile used for roofing the ridge of a building.
The northern form rig-tile is found a little earlier: see rig n.1 5.
| 1496 [see ridge v. 1]. 1611 Cotgr., Renfester vne maison, to put new ridge-tyles on it. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 64 Laid on Mud-walls, and the tops of Houses, in the place and manner of these we call Ridge-tiles. 1726 Swift Gulliver ii. v, The Monkey..let me drop on a Ridge Tyle, and made his Escape. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. iv. vii. (1872) III. 164 All prisons and Houses of Arrest in French land are getting crowded to the ridge-tile. 1851 Ord. & Regul. R. Engin. xix. 100 The Ridges being covered with lead, or Ridge Tiles. |