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Shingling

noun

(geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction.

The laying on of shingles.

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"Shingling" Quotes from Famous Books

... conceal from Captain Asa Shaw that she had taken any one for an intimate counselor but himself; and the same secrecy was observed out of deference to the feelings and pride of Captain Crowe and Captain Witherspoon. The deplored necessity of re-shingling her roof was the great case in which she threw herself upon ...

— The Life of Nancy • Sarah Orne Jewett

... the people were again able to work. The public works then in hand were, the barracks for the marine detachment; an observatory on the west point of the cove; the houses erecting for the governor and the lieutenant-governor; and the shingling of the hospital. ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... for their betterment and success. To all this the sheer fact of Hannah was like the haunting refrain of a song. She was never really out of his planning. He might be sitting on his rooftree squaring the shingling; bargaining with Eli Goss, the stone-cutter; renewing the rock salt for Alderwith's steers; but running through every occupation was the memory of Hannah's pale distracting face, the scarlet thread of the lips she was continually ...

— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer

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