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▪ I. shingly, a.1|ˈʃɪŋglɪ| [f. shingle n.1 + -y.] Covered with shingles or wooden tiles.
1857Whittier Last Walk in Autumn xxi, The..shingly town-house, where The freeman's vote for Freedom falls. ▪ II. shingly, a.2|ˈʃɪŋglɪ| Also Sc. 8 chinlie, chingily, 9 chingly; 9 shingley. [f. shingle n.2 + -y.] Consisting of or covered with shingle; of the nature of shingle. (For Austral. and N.Z. sense, see shingle n.2 1.) α1775L. Shaw Hist. Moray 78 The hard chinlie beach. 1797Statist. Acc. Scotl. XIX. 5 In several parts it [sc. the soil] is gravellish or sandy, or chingily. 1807J. Headrick Arran 281 For slight, sandy, or chingly soils. β1789Phil. Trans. LXXX. 91, I landed, within the sound, on a white shingly beach, the stones of which are all chert. 1802W. Forsyth Fruit Trees xxiii. (1824) 343 Shingly and gravelly soils. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. vii, Benharrow's shingly side. 1843Chamb. Jrnl. 45/3 As they stood upon the shingley beach to see him start. 1857J. T. Thomson in N. M. Taylor Early Travellers in N.Z. (1959) 336 The plains are alluvial and shingly. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 291 The broad shingly bed of a river. 1870Hawthorne Engl. Note-bks. (1879) I. 211 Covered with gray shingly stones. 1878E. S. Elwell Boy Colonists 182 After a long..climb, they reached the top. It was bare and shingly. 1926K. S. Pritchard Working Bullocks v. 52 They rode for hours..along the shingly ledges of steep hill-sides. 1949A. E. Woodhouse in A. E. Currie Centennial Treasury Otago Verse 87 The shingly rivers seaward swirling. |