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noun

Shingling n.

The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

(Metal) The process of expelling scoriae 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.

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Etymology of 'Shingling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shingling" Quotes from Famous Books

... as you do in shingling a roof and place sections of birch bark around, others above them overlapping them, and hold them in place by resting poles against them. If your camp is to be occupied for a week or so, it may be convenient to build a wick-up ...

— Shelters, Shacks and Shanties • D.C. Beard

... not yet recovered his prestige, he went away, and returned with a dinner knife in one hand and a shingling hammer in the other. He waited for his adversary until the sun was low and the deck passengers were preparing their evening meal. Two of the Englishmen came along towards the stairs and ascended to ...

— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale

... hill, started off, and came, nearly abreast, galloping down the road. I got my gig off the road as speedily as I could; but expected to see the poor child crushed to pieces. A young man, a journeyman carpenter, who was shingling a shed by the side of the road, seeing the child, and seeing the danger, though a stranger to the parents, jumped from the top of the shed, ran into the road, and snatched up the child, from scarcely an inch before the hoof of the leading horse. The ...

— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett

Words linked to "Shingling" : geology, stone, rock, shingle, craft, building, construction, trade