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Meaning of shingling

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

shingling

verb

Definitions

  1. To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.

  2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

verb

Definitions

  1. To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

  2. To beat with a shingle.

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of covering with shingles.

  2. Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

  3. The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.