shingling

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction
noun the laying on of shingles
verb cover with shingles

He has nearly finished the shingling. — Anne of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
I selected a couple of stout clothes-lines, a shingling hatchet, and put up two pounds of ten-penny nails. — Down the River; Or, Buck Bradford and His Tyrants, Oliver Optic
They are piled on to a thickness of from a foot to eighteen inches, and when completed this shingling is absolutely waterproof. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

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