Middle English Dictionary Entry
shingle n.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | shingle n.(1) Also shingel, -ul, shengel, singel, chingle, -il & (error) schyglo; pl. shingles, etc. & shengles, shingle, -el, (early) scincles. |
| Etymology | LOE scingul, var. of OE scindel; cp. AL shingula, shingilla, singula, cingula, vars. of L scindula. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wooden tile for roofing; also fig.; also, a thin piece of wood used as a writing tablet; coll. shingles, a quantity of shingles; also, lumber from which shingles are made [quot.: 1439]; (b) ~ bord, lumber for making shingles; ~ nail (prig), coll. nails used in shingling a roof; (c) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.121]; -- ?error for shingled(e adj.
Associated quotations
a
- a1225(c1200) Vices & V.(1) (Stw 34)95/8 : Ðe faste hope hafð hire stede up an heih, for ði hie is rof and wrikð alle ðe hire bieð beneðen mid ðe scincles of holie þohtes.
- ?c1335(a1300) Cokaygne (Hrl 913)57 : Fluren cakes beþ þe schingles alle Of cherche, cloister, boure, and halle.
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)5874 : Arthour smot on hem saun faile, So on þe singel doþe þe haile.
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)481 : Ore soit couert oue tiel ou cene; Hilde with tile or with schyngle.
- (1363) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.4.503 : [Order to Adam atte Feld..to cause] shengel [to be made for roofing the prince's houses].
- (1363) Reg.Edw.Blk.Pr.4.517 : [A..letter to John Forestier, keeper of the wood of Farendale, ordering him to deliver an oak suitable for] shengel.
- (1389) Doc.in Crow Chaucer LR414 : Soit faite commission a Hugh Swayn pur purvoier..tiegles et shingell et autres choses necessaires pur les ditz oevereignes.
- (1397) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)6.161,166 : [2000] shyngle [worth 26 s. 8 d..1500] shyngell [worth 18 s.].
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)250a/a : Tabula..is a þynne plannke and playne and þerInne beþ lettres y-write wiþ coloures, and som tyme smale schyngles ben planed, and made, & somdel holowe in eyther syde, and ben craftiliche y-ioyned togideres, and filled ful of wexe..to writen þerInne.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)250b/b : Þe laþþe..is y-nayled thwartouer to þe rafteres, and þer onne hongeþ sclattes, tyle, and schyngles [L asseres].
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)2206 : Now telleþ þis gest..So on þe shyngel liþe þe haile, Euery kniȝth so lijþ on oþer.
- (1439) LRed Bk.Bristol2.164 : It is ordeyned..that euery man of the seid Crafte..wirche al maner of vessell..suffisantly of gode, able, and drye Tymbre called Haillard other Shyngle.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)75 : Chyngyl, or chyngle, bordys for helyngys of howsys: Sindula.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)446 : Schyngyl, or chyngyl, hyllynge of howsys: Scindula.
- (1442) Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 7114 : Item, John Bates for ii pypys & schyglo [?read: schyngol], ii s. vi d.
- c1450 Trin-C.LEDict.(Trin-C O.5.4)610/13 : Scindula: a shyngul.
- a1500 Peterb.Lapid.(Peterb 33)p.112 : Marble stones..ben with a plate of lede ysete betwyx nessh shynglis [*Trev.Barth. 203a/a: schengles] eiþer spones.
b
- (1283) in Salzman Building in Engl.313 : j millear de hussem et ij millear de schingelprig.
- (1303-4) Acc.Chester in LCRS 5942 : [For the said works, viz., for nails called] spikynges, bordnail, schingelneil, latnail, [and] lednail, [26 s. 11 1/2 d.].
- a1350 Ipswich Domesday(1) (Add 25012)192 : De chescun cent de menu bord qe lem appele baryl bord ou shyngelbord, j d.
- (1354) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.xxxvii : Item, mdcccclx clavi ferrei pro Ecclesia cooperienda, quæ vocantur chyngil nayle.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)193 : Of eche cent. lasse bord that men clepeth barel bord or shyngyl bord, j d.
c
- (1365) EPNSoc.12 (Ess.)476 : Shynglehalle.
- (1481) in Wallenberg PNKent480 : Shyngilhall.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. shingle.