Shingle
Definition of Shingle
Shin´gle | n. | 1. | (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. | | 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. | | 2. | A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. | | v. t. | 1. | To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. - Evelyn. | | 2. | To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. | | 1. | To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. |
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