Shingles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SHINGLES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SHINGLE, to cover with thin tiles of wood
• roof or clad with shingles
• cut (a woman's hair) in a shingle
NOUN:
• a mass of small rounded pebbles, especially on a seashore
• a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs.
• disease causing a rash of small blisters along a nerve
• A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
• eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia
• a woman's short haircut in which the hair tapers from the back of the head to the nape of the neck.
• a small signboard, especially one found outside a doctor's or lawyer's office.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with shingles (thin, oblong pieces of building material)

Words related to SHINGLES

shingle11 shingled13 shingling14

Words that contain SHINGLES

reshingles14

How to use SHINGLES in a sentence

• The private houses are generally sawed timber, framed, and covered with shingles.
• He looked all around and moved the stick around on the shingles, as if he was thinking.
• It was a pent roof, covered with nothing but shingles, according to the southern custom for such buildings.
• On hands and knees across the shingles, still warm from the sun, he crept to the open window.
• He made shingles with a steel drawing knife, that had a wooden handle.
• A roof of cedar shingles was tight, as a matter of course, and what was more, it was lasting.
• The shingles were of black walnut, elegantly rounded at the butt-ends.
• Fresh cut lumber and shingles were prepared by piling layers upon each other with the dry powder sprinkled between in the ratio of twenty pounds to the thousand feet of lumber.
• Some shingles were prepared for a railroad freight house at East St.
• The black spruce is never a very large tree, but the wood is light, elastic and durable, and is valuable in shipbuilding, for making ladders and for shingles.
• The white house with green shingles loomed up near at hand, with a clump of flaming maples beside it.
• Half a mile from the school and the main road there was an empty slab hut roofed with shingles.
• At sunrise he examined closely every hole, and crevice, and corner, and crack in both rooms, floor and floor, slabs, rafters, and shingles.
• If some sparks go out at the chimney-top the shingles are in danger.
• The glass is broken out of the windows and the shingles have peeled off the roofs.
• How the old house shook! Such a ripping and tearing of shingles as there was! Rose could not stifle her shriek.
• The burning air ran over its warped shingles like a kind of colorless fire.
• A long, one-storied farm-house, whitewashed, and roofed with shingles, looked upon the wooden stables.
• It needs new paint and shingles and vines should be trimmed and tied, But what it needs most of all is some people living inside.
• Slowly, gently, the hazy dawn stole over the sky and the roof of dried and ragged shingles seemed as if it were covered with gray dust.
• It was necessary to shave the edges of the shingles somewhat, after they were in place, so that they would not chafe against the axle-bars.
• Pigs, flour, and bacon, planks and shingles, ploughs, hoes, and spades, cider and whisky, were among the simple articles dealt in by the owners of the barges.
• Continue to do so till you have reduced the piece to the thickness of two shingles, which again divide neatly in the middle.
• The boys made slow work of it, having to dig with their hands and a couple of shingles, because the two spades we had were buried with us at the bottom of the cave.

Similar words containing SHINGLE without suffix s

shingle11 shingled13 shingler12 reshingle13 shinglers13 reshingled15 reshingles14 unshingled15

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