Shingles
['ʃɪŋg(ə)lz] or ['ʃɪŋɡlz]
Definition
(n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Checker: Myrna
Definition
n. popular name for the disease Herpes zoster.
Checker: Myrna
Examples
- 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.
Checker: Nicole