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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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Etymology of 'Shingle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... could no longer be distinguished, and a harbor and some houses could be seen in a bay a little way off. Tiny waves fringing the sea with foam, broke on the beach with a faint noise, and some Normandy boats, hauled up on the shingle, lay on their sides with the sun shining on their tarred planks; a few fishermen were getting them ready to go out with ...

— The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) - Une Vie and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant 1850-1893

... A PORT OR HARBOUR. An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous substances, thrown up by the sea to the mouth of a river or harbour, so as to endanger, and sometimes totally prevent, the navigation into it.—Bars of rivers are some shifting and some permanent. The position of the bar of any river may commonly ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... shingle, announcing himself as an attorney-at-law. Of course, no business came to him. The right way to get a practice would have been to go back to the office of Green or some other established lawyer for several years. But Ramon had no idea of doing anything so ...

— The Blood of the Conquerors • Harvey Fergusson

... of tether-ball. Cowperwood, after a telegram to Mrs. Carter, had been met at the station in Pocono by her and rapidly driven out to the house. The green hills pleased him, the up-winding, yellow road, the silver-gray cottage with the brown-shingle roof in the distance. It was three in the afternoon, and ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... or rocks, no shingle or stones covered with seaweed. There are no trees. It is all bare sand, with moss and rushes on the higher ground above the beach. In winter the wind rages with terrific violence along the coast. ...

— Peeps At Many Lands: Belgium • George W. T. Omond

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