Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shingling"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Shingling}.]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all
over the head, as shingles on a roof.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shingling \Shin"gling\, n.
1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively;
a covering made of shingles.
2. (Metal) The process of expelling scori[ae] and other
impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production
of wrought iron.
{Shingling hammer}, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery,
used in shingling puddled iron.
{Shingling mill}, a mill or forge where puddled iron is
shingled.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shingling
n 1: (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly
tilted in the same direction
2: the laying on of shingles; "shingling is a draft very
different from carpentry"
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