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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tile \Tile\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tiled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tiling}.]
1. To cover with tiles; as, to tile a house.
2. Fig.: To cover, as if with tiles.
The muscle, sinew, and vein, Which tile this house, will come again. --Donne.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tiling \Til"ing\, noun
1. A surface covered with tiles, or composed of tiles.
They . . . let him down through the tiling. --Luke v. 19.
2. Tiles, collectively.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tiling
noun: the application of tiles to cover a surface
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiling": adobe, ashlar, biscuit, bisque, bowl, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement, ceramic ware, ceramics, china, clinker, concrete, covering materials, crock, crockery, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards, enamelware, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagstone, floorboards, flooring, glass, ground cloth, ground-sheet, jug, lath and plaster, masonry, mat, mortar, pave, pavement, paving, paving material, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, refractory, roofage, roofing, rug, siding, stone, tile, urn, vase, walling, welcome mat
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