Shingle(n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle(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.
Shingle(n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
Shingle(v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
Shingle(v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle(v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingled(imp. &. p. p.) of Shingle
Shingles(n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.
Shingling(n.) The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
Shingling(n.) The process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.
Shingling(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shingle
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