shingling

1. 1.

   (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction

   Broaderrock

   geology

2. 2.

   the laying on of shingles

   “shingling is a craft very different from carpentry”

   Broadertrade

   Part ofconstruction

Other forms of shingling

plural

shinglings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shingling

What does shingling mean?

shingling means "(geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shingling?

shingling has 2 syllables: shin-gling. The stress falls on "shin".

Is shingling a common word?

shingling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.