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TILER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tiler mean?
• TILER (noun)
The noun TILER has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: TILER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A worker who lays tile
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("tiler" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Derivation:
tile (cover with tiles)
Context examples
"Couldn't do it better by hand or on a tiler."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Joe ran the tiler, a machine wherein a hot iron was hooked on a steel string which furnished the pressure.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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"Tell me and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll understand." (Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"An idiot threw a stone in the well, fourty wise people couldn't get it out." (Armenian proverb)
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