English

A 19th-century waggoner's rest roofed with pantiles in Searby, Lincolnshire, UK, in which travellers would wait for their wagons

Noun

pantile ‎(plural pantiles)

1. A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 103:

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

   • 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):

     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.

Verb

pantile ‎(third-person singular simple present pantiles, present participle pantiling, simple past and past participle pantiled)

1. (transitive) To tile with pantiles.

Anagrams

• pit lane, pitlane