Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Gravel free from dirt; shingle (which see).
  • noun In coal-mining, a portion of the coal-seam stowed away in the goaves to help in supporting the roof of the mine.

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Examples

  • That went chingle chingle whenever water was sipped

    Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Sammy Perlmutter 2010

  • That went chingle chingle whenever water was sipped

    Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature Sammy Perlmutter 2010

  • So I got a few seconds of "chingle bells" before every kid realized that "chingle bells" sounded a heck of a lot like "Chinga bells."

    when in doubt, throw hard candy 2007

  • "Chinkle chingle, chinkle chingle," rang out the scythe, as he held it over his shoulder, and sharpened it with his gritty rubber, and then again shave, shave, shave, over the velvet grass, till long rows of the little strands lay across the lawn.

    Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870

  • That went chingle chingle whenever water was sipped

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010

  • Gunne-powder is compounded) chingle and great stones being skorched in that fiery gulfe, as it were in a furnace, together with abundance of sande and ashes, are vomitted vp and discharged, and that for the most part not without an earthquake which, if it commeth from the depth of the earth, (being called by Possidonius,

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Gunne-powder is compounded) chingle and great stones being skorched in that fiery gulfe, as it were in a furnace, together with abundance of sande and ashes, are vomitted vp and discharged, and that for the most part not without an earthquake which, if it commeth from the depth of the earth, (being called by Possidonius,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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