Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tile; brick.
  • noun Any stone suitable for making tiles, or which can be used for roofing, but splitting into layers too thick to be properly called slate (see slate); thin-bedded flagstone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Geol.) A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
  • noun A tile of stone.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun geology A kind of laminated shale or sandstone belonging to some of the layers of the Upper Silurian.
  • noun A tile made of stone.

Etymologies

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tile +‎ stone

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