SHINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shingly mean? 

• SHINGLY (adjective)
  The adjective SHINGLY has 1 sense:

1. abounding in small stones

  Familiarity information: SHINGLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHINGLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abounding in small stones

Synonyms:

gravelly; pebbly; shingly

Context example:

landed at a shingly little beach

Similar:

rough; unsmooth (having or caused by an irregular surface)

Derivation:

shingle (coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel))

 Context examples 

In the old monastic days he remembered to have heard such a sound when he had walked out one windy night at Bucklershard, and had listened to the long waves breaking upon the shingly shore.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)