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Meaning of SHINGLING

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  the laying on of shingles; "shingling is a draft very different from carpentry"
  2. [n]  (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction
 
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Shin"gling\, n.
1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively;
   a covering made of shingles.
2. (Metal) The process of expelling scori[ae] and other
   impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production
   of wrought iron.
{Shingling hammer}, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery,
   used in shingling puddled iron.
{Shingling mill}, a mill or forge where puddled iron is
   shingled.
 

 

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