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shingle
A jocose term for a sign-board, placed over a shop-door or office. Doctors and dentists from the Un...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
obsolete Tasmanianslang.
1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89:
«When a man gets behindhand with his creditors in Hobart Town,and rusticates in the country in order to avoid theunseasonable calls of the Sheriff's little gentleman, thatdelights to stand at a corner where four streets meet, so asthe better to watch the motions of his prey, he is said to beshingle-splitting.»
A jocose term for a sign-board, placed over a shop-door or office. Doctors and dentists from the Un...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.