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Webster 1913 Edition
Shingle
Shin′gle
,Noun.
[Prob. from Norw.
singl
, singling
, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shin′gle
,Noun.
[OE.
shingle
, shindle
, fr. L. scindula
, scandula
; cf. scindere
to cleave, to split, E. shed
, v. t., Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK], shingle, [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] to slit.] 1.
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. Ray.
2.
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.Shin′gle
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Shingled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shingling
.] 1.
To cover with shingles;
as, to
. shingle
a roofThey
shingle
their houses with it. Evelyn.
2.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shin′gle
,Verb.
T.
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shingle
SHIN'GLE
,Noun.
1. A thin board sawed or rived for covering buildings. Shingles are of different lengths, with one end much thinner than the other for lapping. They are used for covering roofs and sometimes the body of the builking.
2. Round gravel, or a collection of roundish stones.
The plain of La Crau in France, is composed of shingle. Pinkerton.
3. Shingles, plu. [L. cingulum,] a kind of tetter or herpes which spreads around the body like a girdle; an eruptive disease.
SHIN'GLE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
shingle
shingle
English
Noun
shingle (plural shingles)
Shingle roof
- 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.
- Ray
- I reached St. Asaph, […] where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
- Ray
- A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
- 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).
Translations
small, thin piece of building material
small signboard designating a professional office
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See also
Verb
shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)
- (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
- (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
Translations
to cover with shingles (building material)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”)
Verb
shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)
- (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To lash with a shingle.
- The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue
Noun
shingle (plural shingles)
- A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
Etymology 3
Probably cognate to the Norwegian singl (“small stones”) or the North Frisian singel (“gravel”), both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.
Noun
shingle (uncountable)
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
- 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property):
- You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
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Translations
small, smooth pebbles
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments