Crossword clues for shingle
shingle
- Alone, crossing hard pebbles
- Run round hard pebbles on beach
- Record-breaking hotel which is at the seaside
- Play with English pebbles on the beach
- Beach pebbles
- Hearts set in individual stones
- Drunk perhaps alone, one on the tiles?
- It's on the house
- Roofing piece
- Roofing tile
- Roof component
- Rafter neighbor
- Wooden or asphalt roof piece
- Tile on a roof
- Small worn stones and pebbles on the shore
- English (anag)
- Dentist's front-lawn display, perhaps
- Roof, in a way
- Doctor's signboard
- Possible target for a nail gun
- A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- Coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- Building material used as siding or roofing
- Lawyer's signboard
- Dentist's sign
- Roofing unit
- Mass of small rounded pebbles
- Coastal feature, unique, captivating husband
- Coarse gravel
- Coarse gravel found in English ground
- Sole broken by hard beach stones
- Small pebbles fractured leg, bone alongside
- Seaside pebbles
- Fragments of rock in broken English
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [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.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.]
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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.
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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.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.]
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To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it.
--Evelyn. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thin piece of wood," c.1200, scincle, from Late Latin scindula (also the source of German Schindel), altered (by influence of Greek schidax "lath" or schindalmos "splinter") from Latin scandula "roof tile," from scindere "to cleave, split," from PIE root *sked- "to split." Meaning "small signboard" is first attested 1842. Sense of "woman's short haircut" is from 1924; the verb meaning "to cut the hair so as to give the impression of overlapping shingles" is from 1857.
"loose stones on a seashore," 1510s, probably related to Norwegian singl "small stones," or North Frisian singel "gravel," both said to be echoic of the sound of water running over pebbles.
"cover with shingles" (of houses), 1560s, from shingle (n.). Related: Shingled; shingling.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 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. 2 A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel. 3 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). vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. 2 (context transitive English) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof. Etymology 2
n. 1 A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking 2 (context by extension English) Any paddle used for corporal punishment vb. 1 (context transitive industry English) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. 2 To lash with a shingle. Etymology 3
n. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
WordNet
n. building material used as siding or roofing [syn: shake]
coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
v. cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
Gazetteer
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Shingle may refer to:
Usage examples of "shingle".
It would have been easy to buy precut framing, just as it would to get already-made roof shingles, but the fine details kept me anchored.
The building that Shareef Thomas was in turned out to be two-storied, with faded gray shingles and some broken windows.
Green sedges, cliff ferns, and tufts of white starwort grew in sheltered high places, while some deeply shadowed stretches of shingle above the tide-line were still heaped with slow-melting slabs of ice driven ashore by the winter westerlies.
Beneath me passed a broad gray thoroughfare, heavy with traffic, then a block of flat-roofed garages, a narrow street, a slab of shingle, a curve of the Thames, a wharf and steelyard, another street.
Next to it was a green deck representing forest wealth: trees to be sold as masts to shipbuilders in Waterholm, maples to be tapped for syrup, horn-beams for treenails, cedars for shingles, and more.
Shingles can lead to postherpetic neuralgia, a nasty and painful reaction, and when PHN attacks the trigeminal nerve, the resulting agonies can be excruciating, and those suffering from it often commit suicide.
The drumming upon the shingle roof spanning the unceiled room was loud and incessant.
It was a long low room, the walls made of pine slabs stuck upright, and the crevices filled up with clay held together by wattles about six inches apart, with a shingled roof, unceiled, and a clay-floor well beaten down by the tread of many feet.
It was a little rental house, one story and no basement, in this country where most houses had basements or root cellars, and it was faded to a dim green with a gray shingled roof and even though they knew she was inside it looked empty and unlived in.
This sleek, shingled, befurred city madam with her soft white face and casual eyes!
Then the entire house blows outward and upward, shingles flying, hunks of wood lofted into the air and then returning to earth, something that looks like a quilt twisting lazily in the air like a magic carpet as debris rattle to the ground in a thudding, contrapuntal drum roll.
He thought of the half-eaten face and the slashed throat, the Boeotian, squirming on the shingle as the dancer stepped round him, of his terrible failure to understand who must win that fight.
Contemptuous eyewitnesses described her very well as looking like a tin can on a shingle or a cheesebox on a raft.
The sun shone gloriously and brightened the hill-girdled valley in which Odate stands into positive beauty, with the narrow river flinging its bright waters over green and red shingle, lighting it up in glints among the conical hills, some richly wooded with coniferae, and others merely covered with scrub, which were tumbled about in picturesque confusion.
A short time later, the carriage drew up before a long, dogtrot cabin built of gray cypress logs with cypress shingles on the roof and a mud-daub chimney at each end pouring forth gray plumes of smoke.