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shingled

shingled is the simple past and past participle of shingle.

Meaning of shingle

Verb (1)

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

  1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
  3. (transitive) To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

Verb (2)

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

  1. (transitive) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

See all 13 meanings of shingle

Adjective

shingled (not comparable)

  1. Having shingles.
    • Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin. The cabin’s plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flat, so only its general shape suggested its original design1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Words formed from shingled

Phrases with shingled

Questions about shingled

What does shingled mean?
Shingled means having shingles.
What is shingled the simple past and past participle of?
Shingled is the simple past and past participle of shingle.
What part of speech is shingled?
Shingled is an adjective.

Words near shingled in the dictionary

  1. shingle oaks
  2. Shingle Springs
  3. shingle up
  4. shingleback
  5. shinglebacks
  6. shingled
  7. shingled up
  8. Shingledecker
  9. Shingledeckers
  10. shingler
  11. shinglers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shingled (page history and authors); shingle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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