A wooden tile.
1705. Their common covering for Dwelling-Houses is Shingle, which is an Oblong Square of Cypress or Pine-Wood.—Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ iv. 53.
1766. A Stamp Clearance from the Schooner Defiance, with 70,000 Boards, 50,000 Shingles, and 10 Horses.—Boston Evening Post, March 10.
1769. [The wind sent] Spars, Boards, and Shingles flying.—Id., March 27.
1775. Shingles of cypress and white cedar, which are made nearly in the manner of staves, are sold at about 10s. per thousand, and one gang may very well make three or four thousand per day.—B. Romans, ‘Florida,’ p. 182.
1783. I will take in pay wharf-logs, cord-wood, locust-post, fence-rails, plank scantling, shingles, &c.—Advt., Maryland Journal, March 11.
1784. Old Chelicothe is built in form of a Kentucke station, that is, a parallelogram or long square; and some of their houses are shingled.—D. Boon, in John Filson’s ‘Kentucke,’ p. 102.
1788. Twenty very comfortable houses, made of round logs and covered with long shingle, are already erected in the town [of Marietta, Ohio].—Mass. Spy, Dec. 11.
1789. Shingles are quoted at 10s. per M.—Gazette of the U.S., N.Y., April 22.
1796. They are convinced of the pernicious consequences of building with wood and covering with shingles.—Id., July 2 (Phila.).
1802. Dr. French of Conn. has invented a Shingle Dressing Machine.—Mass. Spy, Nov. 17.
1806. For sale, about 200 M. shingles in Barre, 100 M. in Templeton, and 200 M. in Winchendon.—Mass. Spy, March 19.
1817. [The man] mostly employed himself in making shingles, (wooden tiles) at which he earned a dollar and a half per day.—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ p. 72 (Phila.).
1822. The wood used was part of a cypress shingle.—Mass. Spy, Aug. 7.
a. 1848. He will slap them all with the shingle of reproof, and send them sobbing to their beds of shame.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ i. 247.
