Shingle /(?)/

Shin·gle

Shingle

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

Shingle

n.
  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.]

Phrases & Compounds
Shingle oak
a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.

Shingle

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

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