verb

• Line or plaster the roof of (a building)

  ‘the nave has been ceiled in wood’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Following the two down a neat, gravel path, up a set of wide steps, and, after taking a deep breath, I went through the French doors into a marble-tiled, high ceiled sage hallway.’
  • ‘There is as much misery riding and driving about in carriages as there is walking about on foot: there is as much unhappiness in ceiled houses as in humble cottages.’

  Synonyms

  roof, vault, vaulting