v. [UN-2 4.] trans. To strip (a roof, etc.) of tiles. (Common c. 1590–1760.)
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 9114. The taburnacle titly vntild was aboue.
1468–9. Paston Lett., Suppl. (1901), 123. Ye shall have doubyll cost for to untylle your howsys ayen.
1536. MS. Rawl. D. 780, fol. 94 b. Rypyng and vntyllyng the Rouffes.
1589. Whip for Ape, A iij. Cathedrall Churches he would faine vntile.
1604. T. Wright, Passions, V. § 3. 182. Pull down this rafter, cut that beame, vntile the house.
1633. Heywood, Eng. Trav., I. ii. Rough tempests rise, Vntile the roofe, which … Left vnrepaired, the stormy showres beat in.
1690. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), II. 5. [The wind] untiled the tops of most houses more or lesse.
1713. Lond. Gaz., No. 5103/2. The Houses have been … Untiled … by the Wind.
1774. G. White, Selborne, lxi. I untiled the eaves of a house where many pairs build.
fig. 1648. Herrick, Hesper., To the Detractor, 4. A fellon take it, or some Whit-flaw come For to unslate, or to untile that thumb!
1699. T. Brown, Sev. New Coll., 60. What, is your House until’d already, and is it come to a Rupture between you?
