subs. (common).—A Dissenter—minister or layman: see DEVIL-DODGER. Hence PANTILE, adj. (q.v.), and PANTILE-SHOP (see quot. 1785).
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. PANTILE-SHOP. A presbyterian, or other dissenting meeting house, frequently covered with pantiles: called also a Cock-pit.
1856. H. MAYHEW, The Great World of London, 249. The officers … used to designate the extraordinary religious convicts as ‘PANTILERS.’
1864. C. KNIGHT, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century (1873), i. 217. The vulgar term of opprobrium for sectaries in the palmy days of ‘Church and King’ was ‘PANTILERS.’
