Peddle vs Shingle - What's the difference?
peddle | shingle |
To sell things, especially door to door.
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(derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.
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* 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)
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A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
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A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
(industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
To lash with a shingle.
A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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As verbs the difference between peddle and shingle
is that peddle is to sell things, especially door to door while shingle is to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles or shingle can be (industry) to hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.As a noun shingle is
a small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building or shingle can be a punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking or shingle can be small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.peddle
English
Verb
(peddl)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
- Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.
- Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.
shingle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.Noun
(en noun)- I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
See also
* shake * tileVerb
(shingl)Derived terms
* shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingleEtymology 2
From dialectal (etyl)Verb
(shingl)- ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue