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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishshyngel, alteration ofOld Englishsċindel, fromProto-West Germanic*skindulā, borrowed fromLate Latinscindula, fromLatinscandula, fromProto-Indo-European*sked-(to split,scatter), from*sek-(to cut).Doublet ofshindle.

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Noun

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shingle (pluralshingles)

Shingle roof
  1. Asmall,thinpiece ofbuildingmaterial, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlappingrows as a covering for theroof orsides of abuilding.
    • 1760, John Ray,Select Remains of the Learned John Ray, M.A. and F.R.S.[1], page123:
      I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered withShingles or Tiles
  2. Arectangularpiece ofsteelobtained by means of ashingling process involvinghammering ofpuddled steel.
  3. Asmallsignboard designating aprofessionaloffice; this may be both aphysical signboard or ametaphoric term for a smallproduction company (a production shingle).
  4. (computational linguistics) Aword-basedn-gram.
    • 1997 September 1, Andrei Z. Broder, Steven C. Glassman, Mark S. Manasse, Geoffrey Zweig, “Syntactic clustering of the Web”, inComputer Networks and ISDN Systems (Papers from the Sixth International World Wide Web Conference)‎[2], volume29, number 8,→DOI,→ISSN, pages1157–1166:
      In the second phase, we produce a list of all theshingles and the documents they appear in, sorted byshingle value.
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small, thin piece of building material
small signboard designating a professional office

Verb

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shingle (third-person singular simple presentshingles,present participleshingling,simple past and past participleshingled)

  1. (transitive) Tocover with small, thin pieces of building material, withshingles.
  2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
  3. (transitive) To increase thestoragedensity of (ahard disk) by writingtracks that partiallyoverlap.
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to cover with shingles (building material)

See also

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 2

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From dialectalFrenchchingler(to strap, whip), fromLatincingula(girt, belt), fromcingere(to girt).

Verb

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shingle (third-person singular simple presentshingles,present participleshingling,simple past and past participleshingled)

  1. (transitive, manufacturing) Tohammer andsqueeze material in order to expelcinder and impurities from it, as inmetallurgy.
  2. (transitive) Tobeat with a shingle.

Noun

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shingle (pluralshingles)

  1. A punitivestrap such as abelt.
  2. (by extension) Anypaddle used forcorporal punishment.

Etymology 3

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FromMiddle Englishshingel,chingel,singel(gravel, pebbles), cognate withNorwegian Bokmålsingel(pebble(s)),Norwegian Nynorsksingel(pebble(s)), andNorth Frisiansingel(gravel), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

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shingle (countable anduncountable,pluralshingles)

  1. Small, smoothpebbles, as found on abeach.
    • 1867,Matthew Arnold,Dover Beach:
      And nakedshingles of the world.
    • 1961,Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, inThe Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page35:
      Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on theshingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.
    • 2014 August 24, Jeff Howell, “Home improvements: gravel paths and cutting heating bills [print version: Cold comfort in technology, 23 August 2014, p. P5]”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Property)[3]:
      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 peashingle rolled into it.
    • 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, inRAIL, number969, page57:
      One can't escape the huge nuclear facility at Sellafield (supplier of much of the line's remaining freight traffic), or miss the wildshingle beaches with exposed and precarious bungalows sandwiched between the railway and the shore at Braystones.
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small, smooth pebbles

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