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shingleshin‧gle /ˈʃɪŋɡəl/ noun  shingleOrigin: 1,3 1100-1200 Probably from Latin scindula ‘flat piece of wood’2 1500-1600 Probably from a Scandinavian language - All new shingle roofs need sun to melt the tar between the layers and make them stick together.
- All the houses are wooden shingle, window boxes overflowing with wooden flowers on every balcony and window ledge.
- It had two intact stone chimneys, green shingles, a boarded-up door, window frames with no windows.
- The shingles were red and purple; some were the size of shirt buttons, some the size of chestnuts.
- The place fascinated me - narrow country roads, little lost villages, great shingle beaches and lonely salt marshes.
- The tide was high, he could hear the sound of waves on the shingle beach.
- The trapped water pools and backs up under the shingles, where it can leak into the house.
- They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia.
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