The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word TILE
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More clues leading to the result TILE
- Topper in Edinburgh? Local channel about Henry opens list
- Lost boring game? That’s old hat
- Some gambit I learned that can be used in board game
- Put down 15, say, as piece in game
- Bow put around Liberal’s hat
- Leader falling off step — one on the floor?
- Scrabble piece that gets fifty in game
- Game equipment with the roofing material
- Recall 20% off cream hat
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What does TILE mean?
TILE noun- A regularly-shaped slab of clay or other material, affixed to cover or decorate a surface, as in a roof-tile, glazed tile, stove tile, carpet tile etc.
- A rectangular graphic.
- Any of various flat cuboid playing pieces used in certain games, such as dominoes, Scrabble, or mahjong.
- A stiff hat.
- To cover with tiles.
- To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
- To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.
- To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.