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Shingle

noun

Building material used as siding or roofing. Synonym: shake.

Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn 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..

verb

(past & past part. shingled; pres. part. shingling)

Cover with shingles.

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"Shingle" Quotes from Famous Books

... tides waves dash over them. Possibly the shore has sunk since they were built. Near by, on the flat lava, covered by every tide, are rock carvings rudely resembling the outlines of human figures. They must be of rather recent origin, as the stone is constantly subject to wear by the shingle. Stokes has copied them. ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke

... Cross next morning. The old stockade shack, with the dirt floor and dirt roof, had, as he had suggested, been converted into a stable, and a simple but substantial one-and-a-half story log cabin had been built with a shingle roof and a cellar, both luxuries in the Bad Lands. An alcove off the one large room on the main floor was set aside for Roosevelt's use as combined bedroom and study; the other men were quartered in the loft above. East of the ranch-house ...

— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn

... effect from a distance is not so good. It is very odd how unevenly the necessaries of existence are distributed in this country. Here at D'Urban anything hard in the way of stone is a treasure: everything is soft and friable: sand and finest shingle, so fine as to be mere dust, are all the available material for road-making. I am told that later on I shall find that a cartload of sand in Maritzburg is indeed a rare and costly thing: there we are all rock, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 99, March, 1876 • Various

... of North America, chiefly its eastern portions, who travels far north in spring and far south in fall. He nests in large colonies on the sand or shingle of beaches, and cries very sadly when House People come to steal the eggs or kill the young ones. He belongs to the guild of Sea Sweepers, and ...

— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues

... Witch herself; for Rose, fevered with curiosity and superstition, and allured by the very wildness and possible danger of the spell, had kept her appointment; and, a few minutes before midnight, stood on the gray shingle beach with ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

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