Shingle
['ʃɪŋg(ə)l] or ['ʃɪŋɡl]
Definition
(noun.) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..
(noun.) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
(noun.) building material used as siding or roofing.
(verb.) cover with shingles; 'shingle a roof'.
Checker: Lorenzo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
(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.
(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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Definition
n. the coarse gravel on the shores of rivers or of the sea.—adj. Shing′ly.
n. wood sawed or split thin used instead of slates or tiles for roofing houses: (U.S.) a small sign-board or plate.—v.t. to cover with shingles: to crop the hair very close.—adjs. Shing′led Shing′le-roofed having the roof covered with shingles.—ns. Shing′ler; Shing′ling.
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Examples
- All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land, and is suggestive of a gob of mud on the end of a shingle. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It would be best to try experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A shingle is a thin piece of wood, thicker at one end than at the other, having parallel sides, about three times as long as it is wide, having generally smooth surfaces and edges. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- A house in Milan, on which some of those shingles were put in 1844, was still in excellent condition forty-two years later. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A Great Log, how Turned into Bundles of Shingles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- None but first-class timber was used, and such shingles outlasted far those made by machinery with their cross-grain cut. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Rome was roofed with shingles for centuries, made of oak or pine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Caleb