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noun

Shingle n. (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

Shingle n.

A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. "I reached St. Asaph,... where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles."

A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. (Jocose, U. S.)

Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.

verb

Shingle v. t. (past & past part. shingled; pres. part. shingling)

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. "They shingle their houses with it."

To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

Shingle v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ambassador, and Philosopher. My father was then building a new house, and I prevailed on him to let me work with the carpenter for six months. I did so, agreeing to pay the old carpenter a York shilling a day for teaching me. During that time, I learned to plane boards, shingle, and clapboard the house, make window frames and log floors. The little knowledge and skill I then acquired, was of great service when I was labouring among the Indians, as well as my early training as ...

— The Story of My Life - Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada • Egerton Ryerson

... way as to confirm life-long suspicion without giving him power to expose Small, who was firmly intrenched in the good graces of the people of the county-seat village of Lewisburg, where he had grown up, and of the little cross-roads village of Clifty, where his "shingle" ...

— The Hoosier Schoolmaster - A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana • Edward Eggleston

... the basement "study" just as the natural goodness and cheer of man returns to dominion through the barriers of custom. The paint was blistering and peeling from the clap-boarding on the sunny side of the main building, and in one of the windows a piece of shingle had been set to repair a broken pane. It had the appearance of ...

— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... '60's and early '70's) and those of the present day, I think of only two important points. There was one advantage in each case. The earlier dramatists had their choice of many great typical American characters, such as represented in Solon Shingle, Colonel Sellers, Joshua Whitcomb, Bardwell Slote, Mose, Davy Crockett, Pudd'nhead ...

— Shenandoah - Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 • Bronson Howard

... in that country, not far from Otterburn—between Otterburn and the Scottish border—a remote hamlet consisting of a few white cottages, farm buildings and a shingle-spired church. It is called Dryhope, and lies in a close valley, which is watered by a beck or burn, known as the Dryhope Burn. It is deeply buried in the hills. Spurs of the Cheviots as these are, they rise to a considerable ...

— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett

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