shingling

verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

verb
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

    To beat with a shingle.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of covering with shingles.

  2. 2

    Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.

  3. 3

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

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