Word Meanings - SHINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Abounding with shingle, or gravel.

SHINGLER
1. One who shingles. 2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.
SHINGLE
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
GRAVELESS
Without a grave; unburied.
SHINGLES
A kind of herpes which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
GRAVELLINESS
State of being gravelly.
GRAVEL
A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
GRAVELLY
Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil.
GRAVEL-STONE
A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
GRAVELY
In a grave manner.
OVERABOUND
To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
SUPERABOUND
To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.
SEABOUND
Bounded by the sea.