▪ I. ˈshingling, vbl. n.1
[f. shingle v.1 + -ing1.]
1. a. Tiling with shingles or cutting shingles. Also attrib., as shingling-hatchet, etc.
| 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 243 Shingling, the laying on of Shingles. 1859 F. S. Cooper Ironmongers' Catal. 157 Shingling Hatchets. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 32 An Indian tomahawk, which had too much the peaceful look of a shingling-hatchet. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Shingling-bracket, a device to enable a carpenter to stand on a roof while nailing on shingles. Ibid., Shingling-gage,..for adjusting shingles in the proper position for nailing. 1910 Lady D. Nevill Under Five Reigns iv, Shingling is a craft quite distinct from ordinary builder's or carpenter's work. |
b. Arrangement in overlapping layers.
| 1903 U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 13. 48 In numerous sections of these deposits the shingling of the gravels is well marked. |
2. (See shingle v.1 2 a.)
| 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. June 483/2 You do not care for the shingling and bobbed hair styles? 1926 Galsworthy Silver Spoon iv. 25 ‘My dear girl,’ Michael had said, when shingling came in, ‘to please me, don't! Your nuque will be too bristly for kisses.’ 1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 901 Hair Clipper... Specially designed for Shingling, Bobbing, and for removing any superfluous hair. |
▪ II. ˈshingling, vbl. n.2 Iron-manuf.
[f. shingle v.2 + -ing1.]
The action of shingle v.2
| 1674 Ray Coll. Words 128 This Loop they take out with their shingling tongs, and beat it with Iron sledges..that so it may..be in a capacity to be carried under the hammer. Under which they then removing it,..beat it with the hammer very gently, which forces cinder and dross out of the matter, afterwards..they beat it thicker and stronger till they bring it to a Bloom... This operation they call shingling the Loop. 1840 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. III. 298/1 The roasting, smelting, refining, puddling, shingling, balling, and drawing-out. 1881 Greener Gun 222 The loss in the puddling is about 15 per cent., in the shingling and rolling about 14 per cent. |
| attrib. 1674 [see above]. 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 706 The shingling mill..consists of two sets of grooved cylinders. 1857 G. Wilkie Iron Manuf. 108 A 60-horse engine will drive a shingling-hammer [etc.]. 1873 Iron 5 Apr. 356/1 The shingling-forge fitted with a 5-ton wrought iron helve. |
▪ III. ˈshingling, ppl. a.
[f. shingle v.1 + -ing2.]
Used advb.: In a tile-wise arrangement.
| 1840 R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix, As to whether the hides should be stowed ‘shingling’ or ‘back-to-back and flipper-to-flipper’. |