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tiler

The English word “tiler” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A person who sets tiles.
  2. A doorkeeper or attendant at a lodge of Freemasons.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English tiler, tilar, tilere, tylere, tighelar, tyghelere, tygelere, probably from Old English *tiglere, *tigelere (“one who lays tile, tiler”), equivalent to tile + -er.

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