Thesaurus: shingle

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1. n. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
2. 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.
3. n. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
4. v. t. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
5. v. t. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
6. v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
7. n. building material used as siding or roofing
8. n. coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
9. n. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
10. v. cover with shingles
11. 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. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray. 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. 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. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
12. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or acollection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore andelsewhere.