▪ I. shindle, n.
(ˈʃɪnd(ə)l)
[local variant of shingle n.1 Cf. G. schindel.]
1. A wooden roofing-tile.
| 1585 Higins Junius' Nomencl. 211/1 Scandulæ,..oke laths: slates or shindles of wood. 1601 Holland Pliny xvi. x. I. 461 The bourds or shindles of the wild Oke... The shindles are most easily rent or cloven out of all those trees which yeeld Rosin,..the housen in Rome were no otherwise covered over head but with shindles, untill the warre with K. Pyrrhus. 1617 Minsheu Ductor, A Shindle, Vid. a Shingle. 1728 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 28 June 4 A..Brick House, cover'd with Shindles. 1872 Schele de Vere Americanisms 542 In Pennsylvania the word [shingle] is often pronounced Shindle, partly, no doubt, under the influence of the numerous Germans in that State. |
2. A splint.
| 1598 Florio, Stecchette,..shindles or boordes laid about broken legs or armes. |
3. In full shindle-stone: Thin stone from which slates are cut.
| 1669 Phil. Trans. IV. 1009 Take the thin cleft stone, slat or shindle. 1725 Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 15 Oct. 4 A Parcel of Slate (or Shindle-Stones) for tyling or healing of Houses. 1847 in Halliwell. 1882 Jago Gloss., Shell⁓stone, a slate stone. In Devon, shindle-stone. |
▪ II. † ˈshindle, v. Obs. rare—1.
In 3 schindle.
Origin and precise meaning unknown.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 186 Nis þet child fulitowen þet schrepeð [v.rr. schindleð, scratteð] agean, & bit upon þe ȝerde? |