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Tifting(Scots): a mortar bed for verge slates laid over the gable skew.Tile-hangingCovering of overlapping tiles on a wall, which is then said to be tile-hung. Slate-hanging is similar.TiltyardAn open area used for jousting.
Tifting - the laying of thicker slates on the wallheads or close to skews so that water runs into the middle of, and down the pitch of the roof, rather tan spilling down the face of gables, or penetrating under mortar fillets.
 See also: Timber, Slate, Mortar, Gable
  
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