pantile
(ˈpæntaɪl)
Also 7–9 pan tile, pan-tile, 8 pan-tyle.
[f. pan n.1 + tile n. Cf. Du. dakpan (Kilian dack-panne), lit. roof-pan; Ger. dachpfanne, pfannenziegel pan-tile.]
1. a. A roofing tile transversely curved to an ogee shape, one curve being much larger than the other; when laid on the roof the greater part of their surface forms a concave channel for the descent of water, while one side forms a narrow convex ridge, which overlaps the edge of the adjoining tile.
The name has also been applied to tiles made with a single curve, which were laid edge to edge, on their convex sides, the junction of two edges being covered by another tile laid with its concave side downward; also, improperly, to flat overlapping roofing tiles.
| 1640 Charter City London Table of Rates, Tyles vocat' Pan Tyles or Flaunders Tyles the thousand, ijd. 1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 240 Pan-Tiles, being about thirteen Inches long, with a Nob or Button to hang on the Laths..The best sort..are called Flemmish Pan-Tiles. 1738 [G. Smith] Curious Relations II. v. 108 Those Leaves..serve instead of Pan-Tiles to cover their Dwellings. 1816 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 190 Common tiles for roofs are called pan tiles. 1880 Baring-Gould Mehalah i, A small farm-house..roofed with red pan-tiles. 1881 Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1206. 561 Plain tiles are perfectly flat, while pantiles are curved in form ∼ something after the manner of the letter s. |
b. in
sing. collectively, or as a material.
| 1697 W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 387 The Houses are large, strongly built, and covered with Pan-tile. 1727 Philip Quarll 65 Their Houses are..Cover'd with Pantile. |
c. † Erroneously applied to flat Dutch or Flemish paving tiles (
obs.), and so to the Parade at Tunbridge Wells paved with these.
| 1774 Foote Cozeners ii. Wks. 1799 II. 171 At Tunbridge..they have the oddest pantile walk. 1784 H. Walpole Brit. Traveller 25 (Tunbr. Wells) [The shops] are ranged on one side of a walk called the Pantiles, from its pavement. 1805 Moore To Lady H. 1 When..Tunbridge saw, upon her Pantiles, The merriest wight of all the kings That ever ruled these gay gallant isles. 1806 Guide to Watering Pl. 419 The former [Upper Walk] was once paved with pantiles, raised about four steps above the other. 1831 M. Edgeworth Let. 16 Apr. (1971) 525 Yesterday I went to Tunbridge Wells.., saw the Pantiles... The pantiles looked to me wondrous small and narrow and the roof over the row too low. 1907 Daily Chron. 29 Jan. 8/5 It is at the east end of the Pantiles that the original spring,..comes to the surface. 1936 N. & Q. 26 Dec. 461/2 The old Chapel of Ease..at entrance to the Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells..was built in 1684. Ibid., When I was at school at Tunbridge Wells..I used to be taken to a church, close to the Pantiles. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 179/1 The Pantiles Parade, with the original chalybeate spring..is preserved. |
2. Humorously applied to hard sea biscuit, etc.
| 1873 Slang Dict. s.v., Pantile also means a flat cake with jam on it, given to boys at boarding-schools instead of pudding. 1891 Labour Commission Gloss., Pantiles, term used to express the hardness of old sea biscuits ground into meal and then re-baked. 1901 Farmer Slang, Pantile (nautical) a biscuit. |
3. a. attrib. and
Comb., as
pantile-roof,
pantile-works;
pantile-lath, an extra stout lath used for supporting pantiles on a roof.
| 1776 G. Semple Building in Water 66 A nine Foot *Pan⁓tile-lath. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 127/1 Laths called by bricklayers double laths, and the larger ones pan⁓tile laths. |
| 1837 Howitt Rur. Life ii. iv. (1862) 127 A long shed, stone walls and *pantile roof. |
| 1703 Proclam. 10 Jan. in Lond. Gaz. No. 3879/4 The Brick and *Pantile Works near Tilbury Fort. |
† b. Applied contemptuously in 18th c. to rural Dissenters' meeting-houses (sometimes, like ordinary cottages, roofed with pantiles), and to those who attended them: see
quots. Obs.| 1715 S. Centlivre Gotham Election Wks. 1760 III. 163 Mr. Tickup's a good Churchman..none of your occasional Cattle; none of your hellish pantile Crew. Ibid. 181 I'll have you hang'd for 't, I will, you Pantile Monster. 1785 Grose Dict. Vulg. T., Pantile house [ed. 1796 Pantile Shop], a Presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles. |
Hence
ˈpantiled a., covered with pantiles;
† ˈpantiler: see 3 b.
| 1778 Love Feast 12 Led by the Spirit to John's *pantil'd Roof. 1870 F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisfarne 89 [It] rises over the thatched and pantiled roofs..notably. 1951 [see mansarded adj. s.v. mansard]. 1963 Guardian 5 Mar. 7/2 A precipitous assembly of orange pantiled houses. 1978 M. Butterworth X marks Spot iii. i. 121 They passed over a red pantiled roof of a farm⁓house. |
| 1856 Mayhew World Lond. 249 The officers..used to designate the extraordinary religious convicts as ‘*pantilers’. 1889 Drysdale Hist. Presbyter. Eng. 443 Their frequenters were in some localities nick-named ‘Pantilers’, these pantiles forming a substantial yet economical roof. |