ceil

Definitions


[siːl], (Verb)

Definitions:
- line or plaster the roof of (a building)
(e.g: the nave has been ceiled in wood)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘line the interior of a room with plaster or panelling’): perhaps related to Latin celare, French céler ‘conceal’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries