different between interlock vs pantile

English

Etymology

inter- +? lock

Verb

interlock (third-person singular simple present interlocks, present participle interlocking, simple past and past participle interlocked)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To fit or clasp together securely.
2. To interlace.

Translations

Noun

interlock (plural interlocks)

1. A safety device that prevents activation in unsafe conditions.

Translations

References

• “interlock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

English

Etymology

From pan +? tile.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pant??l/

Noun

pantile (plural pantiles)

1. A type of interlocking roof tile with a rounded under and over, giving it an elongated S shape.
   • 1977, Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia, Penguin Classics 2003, p. 8:

     The houses of the estancias shrank behind screens of poplar and eucalyptus. Some of the houses had pantile roofs, but most were of metal sheet, painted red.

   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 103:

     All the gneiss roofing slates have vanished, to be replaced by pantiles painting patchworks of all possible orange hues.
2. (obsolete, slang) A hat.
   • 1830, Charles Cochrane, The Journal of a Tour Made by Señor Juan de Vega (page 243)

     "So you are a Quaker, master, are you?" he added, "Well, I thought somehow, by the cut of your pantile, (hat) you was something or other in that way."

   • 1885, Good Words (volume 26, page 107)

     Hats or ordinary caps can be worn over them, and they are much used by the drivers of hack-carriages and horse-cars. Those who cannot afford a fur cap, ear-muff, or pantile, tie a handkerchief over their ears, […]

Derived terms

• pantile shop

Verb

pantile (third-person singular simple present pantiles, present participle pantiling, simple past and past participle pantiled)

1. (transitive) To tile with pantiles.

References

• 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• Platine, pentail, pilenta, pit lane, pitlane