tilet.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a thin slab of concrete or baked clay etc. used in series for covering a roof or pavement etc.
2 a similar slab of glazed pottery, cork, linoleum, etc., for covering a floor, wall, etc.
3 a thin flat piece used in a game (esp. mah-jong).

--v.

tr. cover with tiles.

on the tiles colloq. having a spree. [OE tigule, -ele, f. L tegula]

tilet.html - n.
1 a person who makes or lays tiles.
2 the doorkeeper of a Freemasons' lodge.

tilet.html - See: ROB THE TILL or HAVE ONE'S HAND IN THE TILL.

tilet.html - {adv. phr.} Until sunset; until the last. * /The women in the country used to sit in the spinning room making yarn out of skeins of wool, usually till the cows came home./

tilet.html - See: FULL TILT.

tilet.html - {v. phr.}, {literary} To do battle with an imaginary foe (after Cervantes' Don Quixote). * /John is a nice guy but when it comes to departmental meetings he wastes everybody's time by constantly tilting at windmills./