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▪ I. shindle, n.|ˈʃɪnd(ə)l|
[local variant of shingle n.1 Cf. G. schindel.]
1. A wooden roofing-tile.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 211/1 Scandulæ,..oke laths: slates or shindles of wood. 1601Holland Pliny xvi. x. I. 461 The bourds or shindles of the wild Oke... The shindles are most easily rent or cloven out of all those trees which yeeld Rosin,..the housen in Rome were no otherwise covered over head but with shindles, untill the warre with K. Pyrrhus. 1617Minsheu Ductor, A Shindle, Vid. a Shingle. 1728Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 28 June 4 A..Brick House, cover'd with Shindles. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 542 In Pennsylvania the word [shingle] is often pronounced Shindle, partly, no doubt, under the influence of the numerous Germans in that State.
2. A splint.
1598Florio, Stecchette,..shindles or boordes laid about broken legs or armes.
3. In full shindle-stone: Thin stone from which slates are cut.
1669Phil. Trans. IV. 1009 Take the thin cleft stone, slat or shindle. 1725Brice's Weekly Jrnl. 15 Oct. 4 A Parcel of Slate (or Shindle-Stones) for tyling or healing of Houses. 1847in Halliwell. 1882Jago Gloss., Shell⁓stone, a slate stone. In Devon, shindle-stone.
▪ II. † ˈshindle, v. Obs. rare—1.
In 3 schindle.
Origin and precise meaning unknown.
a1225Ancr. R. 186 Nis þet child fulitowen þet schrepeð [v.rr. schindleð, scratteð] agean, & bit upon þe ȝerde? |