shingle

[Shin·gle]

A shingle is a thin piece of wood used in making a roof or a signboard outside an office, especially a doctor’s or lawyer's. If you’re opening a business, hang your shingle outside so people can find you.

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Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

Noun
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

Noun
coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

Noun
building material used as siding or roofing

Verb
cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"


n.
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

n.
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.

n.
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

v. t.
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

v. t.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

v. t.
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.


Shingle

Shin"gle , n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

Shingle

Shin"gle, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. , , shingle, to slit.] 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.
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.

Shingle

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.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

Shingle

Shin"gle, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

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.

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

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