Crossword clues for shingled
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: shingle)
Usage examples of "shingled".
I thought of the river in Old Holly then, and then of leaves, palms up, turning in a gentle current above the long, still, suspended fish with silver-dollar eyes, and then the woman ironing clothes in the shingled house, standing in her slip, the blinds not quite shut, and the September music of that warm night, elms and leisures of a dark street when the lawns smell of sweet wet grass and you are a boy, the hopelessness of lust, her bare arms and the shine of silk moving as her slow body moved, twice my age at least, ironing with the smooth movements of a lioness caressing her cubs, and I held to a tree and watched for an hour or more, twice my age, her light brown hair, lazy eyes, the softness of her face, never seen before and never since.
A few were of comparatively modern construction, with shingled walls, large double-glazed windows and fancy wrought-iron grille-work, but most were very old and low, planked with rough adze-cut wood, and having the interlocking wall-beams projecting at the corners.
His apartment was a duplex in an old shingled house that had been converted into two apartments.
It was a Victorian, or perhaps a Queen Anne, style, shingled, with a turret taking up half the front facade.
They rounded a bend and, beyond a green lawn, sat a gray, shingled house with white trim and shutters.
I stood beneath an elm and watched a woman in a shingled house ironing clothes.