To provide with tile-drains, as land.n. A thin slab or plate of baked clay, used for covering the roofs of buildings, paving floors, lining furnaces and ovens, constructing drains, etc., and variously compounded and shaped according to the use in view.n. A similar slab or plate of pottery, glazed and often decorated, used for ornamental pavements, revetments to walls, etc.; also, a like slab of porcelain, glazed and plain or decorated; an encaustic tile; also, a slab of stone or marble used with others like it in a pavement or revetment.n. In metallurgy, a small flat piece of dried earth or earthenware used to cover vessels in which metals are fused.n. A section of pipe of earthenware, glazed or unglazed.n. Tiles of any kind collectively; tiling; construction of tiles.n. A tall stiff hat; a silk hat: humorously compared to a section of pipe (hence also called stovepipe).To cover or roof with tiles.In freemasonry, to guard against the entrance of the uninitiated by placing the tiler at the closed door: as, to tile a lodge; to tile a meeting.To bind to keep what is said or done in strict secrecy.n. Same as til-tree.