Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
shingle-machine . - noun A mill where shingles are made.
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Examples
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He worked in the shingle-mill by spells, and then again in the chair-factory, or did odd jobs.
Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907
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Another was describing a new shingle-mill he had just built.
Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900
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Fraser 14.5 mentions an instance of a boy of fifteen who was caught in the crank of a balance-wheel in a shingle-mill, and was taken up insensible.
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Fraser mentions an instance of a boy of fifteen who was caught in the crank of a balance-wheel in a shingle-mill, and was taken up insensible.
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"O Gretchen, husband has been at home from the shingle-mill, and he has told me something dreadful!"
The Log School-House on the Columbia Hezekiah Butterworth 1872
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