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Definition of Shingle
1. Verb. Cover with shingles. "Shingle a roof"
2. Noun. Building material used as siding or roofing.
3. Noun. Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
4. Noun. A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..
Definition of Shingle
1. n. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
4. v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Definition of Shingle
1. Noun. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building. ¹
2. Noun. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel. ¹
3. Noun. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle). ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. ¹
6. Verb. To lash with a shingle. ¹
7. Noun. A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking ¹
8. Noun. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment ¹
9. Noun. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shingle
1. to cover with shingles (thin, oblong pieces of building material) [v -GLED, -GLING, -GLES]
Medical Definition of Shingle
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Shingle
Literary usage of Shingle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1887)
"Does the area covered by the tide consist of bare rock, shingle, sand, or mod?
9. ... Whether the shingle forms one continuous slope, or whether there is a ..."
2. Biennial Report by Washington (State). Bureau of Labor (1906)
""We the undersigned, shingle manufacturers, parties of the first part, and
Anacortes shingle Weavers Union, party of the second part, do hereby agree to ..."
3. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"In the East, shingle mills are usually located in connection with sawmills, ...
shingle machines were introduced on a commercial basis about 1880. ..."
4. Forest Products, Their Manufacture and Use: Embracing the Principal by Nelson Courtlandt Brown (1919)
"In the East, shingle mills are usually located in connection with sawmills, the
shingles ... shingle machines were introduced on a commercial basis about ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1853)
"The bank consisted in reality of shingle, mixed in places with sand, ...
The largest shingle was generally found " to leeward," or farthest from the point ..."
6. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1905)
"The width of a roof shingle should not exceed 8 inches, owing to the tendency of
a wide shingle to Entrance to a brick house at Cambridge, Mass. ..."
7. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"(L.) Formerly a common word ; a shingle was a piece of wood, split thin, ...
A corrupt pronunciation a shingle, splint. [Both E. shingle and G. schindel are ..."
8. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"shingle SHAVINGS. "shingle shavings'," or "Jointer shavings," consist of the
portions of the shingles taken off by the machine in edging and trimming the ..."
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