shingling is a draft very different from carpentry. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The shingling involved a little racing of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [APED: "ouch"] Reference
The afternoon was spent in shingling the hen-house. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
The shingling hatchet, Fig. 140, is a type of this. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Fleur wanted to know whether she had heard anything fresh about shingling. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
The rubber membrane thing is probably worth doing next re-shingling though. From Wordnik.com. [The view from my ice cage.] Reference
If women took to them, shingling would stay; if not, hair might come in again. From Wordnik.com. [Swan Song] Reference
Over the last couple weeks, workers have been re-shingling the roofs of my complex. From Wordnik.com. [Annoyance] Reference
Jamie and Ian ceased their work of log felling and field clearing, and turned to roof shingling. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
"If that denotes falling asleep while shingling the roof, yes, you could say he was lazy, or narcoleptic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Went Underground]
Lay breasts down, upon a low rack in a deep pan, cover with slices of streaky bacon, shingling the slices well. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The farmhouse he owned there was partially restored, with white antique wood shingling, two stories, a new roof. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bad Wolf]
But Bobby tobogganed down the roof during its shingling and sprained his ankle, which necessitated the use of crutches. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
I hear him pounding nails all day long in the back yard, and he made a good job of shingling the woodshed the other day. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
During the summer he helped build a house in the village, he himself planning all the lumber for the siding, and shingling the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
I put an addition on our house and with the exception of pouring the foundation/garage floor and shingling the roof, I did everything. From Wordnik.com. [Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia] Reference
June 25 -- Saturday; eager to get the shanty finished all hands turned to the work, got the shingling finished and the ground floor laid. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
It was known as a bundling-mould or shingling-mould. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
One mark the shingling industry left on the household. From Wordnik.com. [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference
D. a square, and our workmen asked that for heart-pine shingling. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821-1822] Reference
Already the fire has leaped from the sheds to the rough shingling. From Wordnik.com. [Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier] Reference
She looked out of the kitchen window, and saw some carpenters shingling the barn. From Wordnik.com. [Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple] Reference
And Martin would know what to do about shingling the barn and cementing the cellar. From Wordnik.com. [The Wall Between] Reference
He had seen a shingling hatchet in the cook-room, used for splitting up the kindling wood. From Wordnik.com. [Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot.] Reference
Tom Tracy said you were shingling a roof, and Billy Peterkin said Maude was helping you. '. From Wordnik.com. [Tracy Park] Reference
"We did everything from framing the walls and putting the siding on to shingling the roof.". From Wordnik.com. [Baptist Standard] Reference
One June when he was shingling the old barn he engaged me to pick him some wild strawberries. From Wordnik.com. [My Boyhood] Reference
In the quiet of the halt, Carol could hear a horse kicking his stall, a carpenter shingling a roof. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
Commence to lay them from the ground and work up to the cross-pole, shingling them carefully as you go. From Wordnik.com. [Woodcraft] Reference
I selected a couple of stout clothes-lines, a shingling hatchet, and put up two pounds of ten-penny nails. From Wordnik.com. [Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants] Reference
There is no handsomer shingling and paint than this vine, at present covering a whole side of some houses. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
He knew because he'd just begun shingling his kitchen and the line storm came along before he got it finished. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe] Reference
He found a shingling hatchet in the cuddy, and with this he attempted to drive out the filling of the mast-hole. From Wordnik.com. [All Adrift or The Goldwing Club] Reference
"It's not worth milling -- a forest fire has wiped out most of it -- but we struck some shingling cedar we may make something of.". From Wordnik.com. [Vane of the Timberlands] Reference
In a month he completed a wooden addition to my residence, building the sides, and shingling the roof in a most workmanlike manner. From Wordnik.com. [Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia] Reference
The ladder they had gone for was missing from its case, -- a neighbor had carried it off for the workmen who were shingling his roof. From Wordnik.com. [A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio] Reference
It was standing considerably away from the shore, but its newness was apparent, for on its roof, busily engaged at shingling, was an agile. From Wordnik.com. [The Shagganappi] Reference
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