shingle
noun
- small rock
- well-rounded rock fragments
- overlapping roof tile
verb
- cover with shingles
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English shingel, chingel, singel (“gravel, pebbles”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål singel (“pebble(s)”), Norwegian Nynorsk singel (“pebble(s)”), and North Frisian singel (“gravel”), imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.
- Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
“And naked shingles of the world.”
“You need to excavate and remove the topsoil, line the subsoil with a geotextile, then lay and compact hardcore. Follow this with a layer of compacted "hoggin" – compacted clay, gravel and sand. This is then sprayed with hot bitumen, and has a layer of pea shingle rolled into it.”
- A beach or other shore covered with loose, smooth pebbles.
“Underneath a black cliff where the incoming tide smashed on the shingle, they stumbled upon the mail hood of Hrothgar's murdered vassal.”
verb
Etymology: From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”).
- To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
- To beat with a shingle.