Word Meanings - SHINDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shingle; also, a slate for roofing. Holland.

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• SHINGLER
  1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• SHINGLE
  1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn. 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
• ROOFER
  One who puts on roofs.
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• SHINGLES
  A kind of herpes which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
• ROOFLET
  A small roof, covering, or shelter.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• ROOFLESS
  1. Having no roof; as, a roofless house. 2. Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• SLATE-COLOR
  A dark bluish gray color.
• ROOFY
  Having roofs. Dryden.
• SLATE
  An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates; argillite; argillaceous schist. 2. Any rock or stone having a slaty structure. 3. A prepared piece of such stone. Especially: A thin, flat piece, for roofing or covering houses, etc. A
• ROOFTREE
  The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself. Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall. Tennyson.
• ROOFING
  The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage. Raymond. (more info) 1. The act of covering with a roof. 2. The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof. Gwilt. 3. Hence, the roof itself;
• ROOF
  1. To cover with a roof. I have not seen the remains of any Roman buildings that have not been roofed with vaults or arches. Addison. 2. To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter. Here had we now our country's honor roofed. Shak.
• SLATE-GRAY
  Of a dark gray, like slate.
• WOODRUFF; WOODROOF
  A little European herb having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• UNROOF
  To strip off the roof or covering of, as a house. Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• PENTROOF
  See LEAN-TO
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• TRANSLATE
  To remove, as a bishop, from one see to another. "Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, when the king would have translated him from that poor bishopric to a better, . . . refused." Camden. 5. To render into another language; to express the sense of in the
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• BOMBPROOF
  Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.
• WEATHERPROOF
  Proof against rough weather.