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Shingling   Listen
noun
Shingling  n.  
1.
The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
2.
(Metal) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron.
Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.





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"Shingling" Quotes from Famous Books



... difficult piece of camp kit to obtain in perfection of which I have any knowledge. Before I was a dozen years old I came to realize that a light hatchet was a sine qua non in woodcraft and I also found it a most difficult thing to get. I tried shingling hatchets, lathing hatchets and the small hatchets to be found in country hardware stores, but none of them were satisfactory. I had quite a number made by blacksmiths who professed skill in making edged tools and these ...
— Woodcraft • George W. Sears
... payment! Every cent of it could go toward the principal. That meant Ferris could devote the extra few dollars he had already saved for the principal to the buying of fertilizers and several sorely-needed utensils and to the shingling of the house. ...
— His Dog • Albert Payson Terhune


Words linked to "Shingling" :   building, rock, craft, construction, stone


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