Shingles

(n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

整理:默娜

• For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For a cheap silo boards may be used, though probably shingles are the cheapest in the end. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• A house in Milan, on which some of those shingles were put in 1844, was still in excellent condition forty-two years later. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• A Great Log, how Turned into Bundles of Shingles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A bolt made two shingles; it was sawn asunder by hand, then split and shaved. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• None but first-class timber was used, and such shingles outlasted far those made by machinery with their cross-grain cut. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Rome was roofed with shingles for centuries, made of oak or pine. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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