Shingle



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• n.木瓦, 屋顶板; 木质小招牌

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English schingel, alteration of Old English scindel, from Medieval Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula
• Date: 13th century
• 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
• 2. a small signboard especially designating a professional office — used chiefly in the phrase hang out one's shingle
• 3. a woman's haircut with the hair trimmed short from the back of the head to the nape

II. transitive verb (shingled; shingling)

• Date: 1562
• 1. to cover with or as if with shingles
• 2. to bob and shape (the hair) in a shingle
• 3. to lay out or arrange so as to overlap
• ? shingler noun

III. noun

• Etymology: Middle English chyngell; akin to Middle Low German singel seashore gravel
• Date: 15th century
• 1. coarse rounded detritus or alluvial material especially on the seashore that differs from ordinary gravel only in the larger size of the stones
• 2. a place strewn with shingle
• ? shingly adjective

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