Definitions
cover with shingles
Word origin
From Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.
Used in a sentence
“I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles”
“He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.”
“When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Roofing tile”7 letters
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