shingling

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.

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