shingly

[ shing-glee ]

/ ˈʃɪŋ gli /

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consisting of or covered with small, waterworn stones or pebbles.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

First recorded in 1765–75; shingle² + -y¹

The common tern and the greater sand-plover nested on the shingly islands in the river.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921|Charles Kenneth Howard-Bury
A broad, steep road leads down to the bathing-place on the sea-beach, which is rough and shingly.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
Down on a strip of shingly beach the birds parade, when not in the rookery or at sea getting food.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson
Some of these streams do not reach the sea immediately, but disappear in the loose shingly beaches of peaty swamps.
The Home of the Blizzard|Douglas Mawson

The heavy tread too of a man's impatient foot upon the shingly path that led up from the wicket of the narrow garden.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art|Various