Brewer's: Tile a Lodge

in Freemasonry, means to close the door, to prevent anyone uninitiated from entering. Of course, to tile a house means to finish building it, and to tile a lodge is to complete it.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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