Shingle

(noun.) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..

(noun.) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).

(noun.) building material used as siding or roofing.

(verb.) cover with shingles; 'shingle a roof'.

录入:洛伦佐

• All these features are now given to the shingle by modern machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Everybody was out of town, and I yearned for the glades of the New Forest or the shingle of Southsea. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In the silo it should be distributed evenly and probably had better be placed in regular layers, lapping shingle fashion so that it will settle evenly. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It is pushed out into the sea on the end of a flat, narrow strip of land, and is suggestive of a gob of mud on the end of a shingle. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The outhouse was the simplest of dwellings, wooden-walled, shingle-roofed, one window beside the door and one on the farther side. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It would be best to try experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• A shingle is a thin piece of wood, thicker at one end than at the other, having parallel sides, about three times as long as it is wide, having generally smooth surfaces and edges. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The cattle purchased at Alexandria for beef ought to be shingled. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• A house in Milan, on which some of those shingles were put in 1844, was still in excellent condition forty-two years later. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A Great Log, how Turned into Bundles of Shingles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• None but first-class timber was used, and such shingles outlasted far those made by machinery with their cross-grain cut. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Rome was roofed with shingles for centuries, made of oak or pine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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