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Shingled vs Swingled - What's the difference?

shingled | swingled |

As verbs the difference between shingled and swingled

is that shingled is (shingle) while swingled is (swingle).

shingled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (shingle)

    • Anagrams

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    shingle

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • * Ray
    • I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
  • 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).

    • See also

    * shake * tile

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingle

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal (etyl)

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  • To lash with a shingle.
    • ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
  • (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment

    • Etymology 3

    Probably cognate to the (etyl) , both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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    • References

    * * (CorPun) & [http://www.corpun.com/picpar.htm

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    swingled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (swingle)

    • swingle

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (swingl)
  • to beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch
  • * 1858 , John Harland (editor), The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, in the County of Lancaster ,
    • The first operation in dressing flax is to swingle or beat it, in order to detach it from the harle or skimps.
  • To beat off the tops of (weeds) without pulling up the roots.
    • (Forby)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (swingl)
  • To dangle; to wave hanging.
    • (Johnson)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To swing for pleasure.

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