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Jan 30, 2019
This week’s themeWords that have many unrelated meanings
This week’s words
gob
skelf
shingle
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PRONUNCIATION:
(SHING-guhl) 
MEANING:
| noun: | 1. A tile laid in overlapping rows to cover walls or roofs. |
| 2. A small signboard indicating a professional office. Used in the phrase “to hang one’s shingle”. | |
| 3. A woman’s close-cropped haircut tapering from the back of the head to the nape. | |
| 4. Waterworn pebbles found on a beach. | |
| 5. A place where such pebbles are found. | |
| verb tr.: | 1. To cover with shingles or to lay out something in an overlapping manner. |
| 2. To cut hair in a shingle. | |
| 3. To squeeze or hammer puddled iron to remove impurities. |
ETYMOLOGY:
For noun 1-3 & verb 1-2: From Latin scindula (a thin piece of wood). Earliest documented use: 1200.
For noun 4-5: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1513.
For verb 3: From French cingler (to whip or beat), from German zängeln, from Zange (tongs). Earliest documented use: 1674.
For noun 4-5: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1513.
For verb 3: From French cingler (to whip or beat), from German zängeln, from Zange (tongs). Earliest documented use: 1674.
USAGE:
“[Limited license legal technicians] apprentice under a lawyer for 3,000 hours before they hang their shingles.”
Robert Ambrogi; Who Says You Need a Law Degree to Practice Law?; The Washington Post; Mar 15, 2015.
“Some decisions are carefully constructed towers of logic framed in lists of pros and cons, shingled in trusted advice.”
G.P. Ching; The Grounded Trilogy Book One; Carpe Luna; 2014.
“Officers tracked the woman down using the car’s registration number and gave her advice that taking shingle from the beach was illegal.”
Woman Who ‘Stole’ Pebbles from a Beach; The Mirror (London, UK); Oct 2, 2013.
See more usage examples of shingle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Robert Ambrogi; Who Says You Need a Law Degree to Practice Law?; The Washington Post; Mar 15, 2015.
“Some decisions are carefully constructed towers of logic framed in lists of pros and cons, shingled in trusted advice.”
G.P. Ching; The Grounded Trilogy Book One; Carpe Luna; 2014.
“Officers tracked the woman down using the car’s registration number and gave her advice that taking shingle from the beach was illegal.”
Woman Who ‘Stole’ Pebbles from a Beach; The Mirror (London, UK); Oct 2, 2013.
See more usage examples of shingle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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