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shingly
[ shing-glee ]
adjective
- consisting of or covered with small, waterworn stones or pebbles.
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The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.
A broad, steep road leads down to the bathing-place on the sea-beach, which is rough and shingly.
Down on a strip of shingly beach the birds parade, when not in the rookery or at sea getting food.
Some of these streams do not reach the sea immediately, but disappear in the loose shingly beaches of peaty swamps.
The heavy tread too of a man's impatient foot upon the shingly path that led up from the wicket of the narrow garden.
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