shingle
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From Middle English scincle, from Latin scindula, an alteration, influenced by the Ancient Greek σχίδαξ 'lath' (compare σχίζα, σχίσμα, σχίζω), of the Latin scandula (“roof tile”), from scindere (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split”).
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shingle (plural shingles)
- 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.
- 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).
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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.
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From French dialect chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”)
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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
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shingle (plural shingles)
- A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
- (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
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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.
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shingle (uncountable)
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- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
- Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1] & [2]
