untiling

Verb

untile (third-person singular simple present untiles, present participle untiling, simple past and past participle untiled)

1. (transitive) To remove the tiles from.
   • But before they went, Sir W. Batten and my lady did begin to taunt them, but the rogues answered them as high as themselves, and swore they would come again, and called me rogue and rebel, and they would bring the sheriff and untile his house, before he should harbour a rebel in his house, and that...1663 March 2 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “February 21st, 1662–1663”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume III...