ceiled

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From a wall, one group draped a biblical quotation: "Is it time for you, O Ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste?"

From Time Magazine Archive

She had lots ob log cabin quarters, whut had de cracks daubed wid mud, an' den ceiled wid boards.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

As the machine was advanced, a trench was dug behind it, ceiled by timbers and covered with the excavated material.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Fletcher, Samuel H.

And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm trees and chains.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

They lived in a big, log house, but you wouldn't know it was a log house unless you went up in the attic where it wasn't ceiled.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration