shingle

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English scincle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language code; the value "VL." is not valid. See WT:LOL. scindula, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin scandula.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

Shingle roof
  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.
    • 1760, John Ray, Select Remains of the Learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S.‎[1], page 123:
      I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles
  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).
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Verb

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  1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
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Etymology 2

From dialectal (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”)

Verb

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  1. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

  1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
  2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3

Probably cognate to the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian singl (“small stones”) or the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] North Frisian singel (“gravel”), both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)

  1. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
    • 1867, Matthew Arnold
      And naked shingles of the world.
    • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Property)‎[2]:
      You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.
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References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments

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