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unˈtile, v.
[un-2 4.]
trans. To strip (a roof, etc.) of tiles. (Common c 1590–1760.)
c1400Destr. Troy 9114 The taburnacle titly vntild was aboue. 1468–9Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 123 Ye shall have doubyll cost for to untylle your howsys ayen. 1536MS. Rawl. D. 780 fol. 94 b, Rypyng and vntyllyng the Rouffes. 1589Whip for Ape A iij, Cathedrall Churches he would faine vntile. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §3. 182 Pull down this rafter, cut that beame, vntile the house. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. i. ii, Rough tempests rise, Vntile the roofe, which..Left vnrepaired, the stormy showres beat in. 1690Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) II. 5 [The wind] untiled the tops of most houses more or lesse. 1713Lond. Gaz. No. 5103/2 The Houses have been..Untiled..by the Wind. 1774G. White Selborne lxi, I untiled the eaves of a house where many pairs build.
fig.1648Herrick Hesper., To the Detractor 4 A fellon take it, or some Whit-flaw come For to unslate, or to untile that thumb! 1699T. Brown Sev. New Coll. 60 What, is your House until'd already, and is it come to a Rupture between you? |