Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which shingles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who shingles.
- noun A machine for shingling puddled iron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A person who installs
shingles .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who shingles roofs
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Examples
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Joe was his best man, his most experienced worker and fastest shingler, but Ted had been so pissed off that he'd told the Indian that if he left now he'd never work for his company again.
The Store Little, Bentley 1998
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Her robust vitality is veined with humour; she watches a roof-shingler with active delight, discovering poetry in cheerful manual toil.
The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904
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The expected tragedy never occurred, however, and the inspired shingler fulfilled his promise to the letter, so that before many months the Dorcas Society proceeded, with incredible exertion, to earn more money, and the interior of the church was neatly painted and made as fresh as a rose.
The Old Peabody Pew Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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The expected tragedy never occurred, however, and the inspired shingler fulfilled his promise to the letter, so that before many months the Dorcas
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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