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Shingles

noun

Eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia. Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster.

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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"Shingles" Quotes from Famous Books

... I like you," he said; "because you like him. Ever notice how the cedar shingles shrink ...

— Roy Blakeley's Adventures in Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... and seams was stuffed with moss. The roof was made of coarse slabs, battened and not shingled, and the chimbly peeped out like a black pot, made of sticks and mud, the way a crow's nest is. The winders were half broke out, and stopped up with shingles and old clothes, and a great bank of mud and straw all round, reached half way up to the roof, to keep the frost out of the cellar. It looked like an old hat on a dung heap. I pitied the old Judge, because he was a man that took the world as he found ...

— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... exactly. There was an understanding that if I blew for him this afternoon—old Brewer being laid up with the shingles—he would take me through that tenor part in the new Venite Exultemus. It's tricky, and yesterday morning ...

— Brother Copas • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... comfortable through the good fortunes of the Bunkers, was no longer sheltered by the cliff, but was exposed to the full strength of the Pacific gales. There were long nights when she could hear the rain fall monotonously on the shingles, or startle her with a short, sharp reveille en the windows; there were brief days of flying clouds and drifting sunshine, and intervals of dull gray shadow, when the heaving white breakers beyond the Gate slowly lifted themselves and sank before her like wraiths of warning. At such times, in ...

— Sally Dows and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... action—who has escaped?—who is dead?... The first person I found wounded was Mrs. Brocklass, the lady of an officer of the 1st West India Regiment, who, with three fine children, finding the roof over them falling, hastened from under it. She had the misfortune to be knocked down by some shingles, received a blow on the head, and had two or three ribs broken; the children fortunately escaped: her husband was on duty in a most perilous situation.... The huts which were the quarters of the married ...

— The History of the First West India Regiment • A. B. Ellis

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