Definition of "shingling" []

• Present participle of shingle. (verb)
• The act of covering with shingles. (noun)
• Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles. (noun)
• The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. (noun)

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• "I learned from Steve Armes, an expert on academic methods, that this area-by-area method has also been called "shingling" and the "night shade" method, because it's like pulling down a night shade."
• "Many a dispute have I heard raging high between professed "beach-combers," as to whether the hides should be stowed "shingling," or "back-to-back, and flipper-to-flipper;" upon which point there was an entire and bitter division of sentiment among the savans."
• "Many a dispute have I heard raging high between professed "beach-combers," as to whether the hides should be stowed "shingling," or back-to-back, and flipper-to-flipper; "upon which point there was an entire and bitter division of sentiment among the savans."