An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SHINGLING
shingling
(noun) the laying on of shingles; “shingling is a craft very different from carpentry”
shingling
(noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
shingling
present participle of shingle
Noun
shingling (plural shinglings)
The act of covering with shingles.
Shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Source: Wiktionary
Shin"gling, n.
1. The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
2. (Metal)
Definition: The process of expelling scoriæ and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron. Shingling hammer, a ponderous hammer moved by machinery, used in shingling puddled iron.
– Shingling mill, a mill or forge where puddled iron is shingled.
SHINGLE
Shin"gle, n. Etym: [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Definition: Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shin"gle, n. Etym: [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr.
1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray.
2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.
Shin"gle, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.]
1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shin"gle, v. t.
Definition: To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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