a flat thin slab of fired clay, rubber, linoleum, etc, usually square or rectangular and sometimes ornamental, used with others to cover a roof, floor, wall, etcRelated: tegular
2.
a short pipe made of earthenware, concrete, or plastic, used with others to form a drain
3.
tiles collectively
4.
a rectangular block used as a playing piece in mah jong and other games
5.
old-fashioned, slang (Brit) a hat
6.
informalon the tiles on a spree, esp of drinking or debauchery
—vb
7.
(tr) to cover with tiles
Related: tegular
[Old English tīgele, from Latin tēgula; related to German Ziegel]
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.