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shingle
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Shingle
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Shingling.]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn.
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2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all
over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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Shingle
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t.
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron
from the pudding furnace.
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Shingle
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse
gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a
collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the
seashore and elsewhere.
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Shingle
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula,
scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t.,
Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.]
1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one
end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings,
especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping
the thin ends of the row below.
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I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very
poor cathedral church covered with shingles or
tiles. --Ray.
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2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's
shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
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Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria)
used in the Western States for making shingles.
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shingle
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n 1: building material used as siding or roofing [syn:
shingle, shake]
2: coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or
a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
3: a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor,
e.g.
v 1: cover with shingles; "shingle a roof" |
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shingle oak
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shingler
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shingles
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Shingle
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Shingling.]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn.
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2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all
over the head, as shingles on a roof.
[1913 Webster]Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t.
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron
from the pudding furnace.
[1913 Webster]Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse
gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a
collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the
seashore and elsewhere.
[1913 Webster]Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula,
scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t.,
Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.]
1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one
end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings,
especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping
the thin ends of the row below.
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I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very
poor cathedral church covered with shingles or
tiles. --Ray.
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2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's
shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
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Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria)
used in the Western States for making shingles.
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Shingle oak
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula,
scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t.,
Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.]
1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one
end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings,
especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping
the thin ends of the row below.
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I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very
poor cathedral church covered with shingles or
tiles. --Ray.
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2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's
shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
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Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria)
used in the Western States for making shingles.
[1913 Webster]Oak \Oak\ ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D.
eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
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1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks
have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and
staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut,
called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now
recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly
fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe,
Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few
barely reaching the northern parts of South America and
Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand
proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually
hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary
rays, forming the silver grain.
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2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
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Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak
or quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called
also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), {Quercus
prinoides}.
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also
called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of
all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of
California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
Red oak, Quercus rubra.
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos.
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Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
English white oak, Quercus Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
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Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus
Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia
Africana}).
Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus
Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon
excelsum}).
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy,
but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or {Rhus
diversiloba}.
Silky oak or Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree
(Grevillea robusta).
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Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
mycelium of certain fungi.
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
Oak beauty (Zool.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
Oak pruner. (Zool.) See Pruner, the insect.
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races
(the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
from his estate.
To sport one's oak, to be "not at home to visitors,"
signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
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Shingled
(gcide) | Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb.
n. Shingling.]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn.
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2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all
over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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Shingler
(gcide) | Shingler \Shin"gler\, n.
1. One who shingles.
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2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
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Shingles
(gcide) | Shingles \Shin"gles\, n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L.
cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture,
Cingle, Surcingle.] (Med.)
A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way
around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with
violent neuralgic pain.
[1913 Webster]Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see Lap, n.); cf. also
OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap
a piece of cloth.
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2. To wrap or wind around something.
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About the paper . . . I lapped several times a
slender thread of very black silk. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
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Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
--Dryden.
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4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly
cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay
together one partly over another; as, to lap
weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of
(something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
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5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as
fleeces or slivers for further working.
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To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over
another.
To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve
the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
--Weale.
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shingles
(gcide) | Shingles \Shin"gles\, n. [OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L.
cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture,
Cingle, Surcingle.] (Med.)
A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way
around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with
violent neuralgic pain.
[1913 Webster]Lap \Lap\, v. t. [OE. lappen to fold (see Lap, n.); cf. also
OE. wlappen, perh. another form of wrappen, E, wrap.]
1. To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap
a piece of cloth.
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2. To wrap or wind around something.
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About the paper . . . I lapped several times a
slender thread of very black silk. --Sir I.
Newton.
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3. To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
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Her garment spreads, and laps him in the folds.
--Dryden.
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4. To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly
cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay
together one partly over another; as, to lap
weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of
(something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
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5. (Carding & Spinning) To lay together one over another, as
fleeces or slivers for further working.
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To lap boards, shingles, etc., to lay one partly over
another.
To lap timbers, to unite them in such a way as to preserve
the same breadth and depth throughout, as by scarfing.
--Weale.
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shingle oak
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n 1: small deciduous tree of eastern and central United States
having leaves that shine like laurel; wood is used in
western states for shingles [syn: shingle oak, {laurel
oak}, Quercus imbricaria] |
shingle tree
(wn) | shingle tree
n 1: East Indian timber tree with hard durable wood used
especially for tea boxes [syn: shingle tree, {Acrocarpus
fraxinifolius}] |
shingler
(wn) | shingler
n 1: a worker who shingles roofs |
shingles
(wn) | shingles
n 1: eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe
neuralgia [syn: herpes zoster, zoster, shingles] |
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