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Definition of Shingle
1. Verb. Cover with shingles. "Shingle a roof"
2. Noun. Building material used as siding or roofing.
3. Noun. Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
4. Noun. A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..
Definition of Shingle
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. v. t. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
4. v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Definition of Shingle
1. Noun. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building. ¹
2. Noun. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel. ¹
3. Noun. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle). ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy. ¹
6. Verb. To lash with a shingle. ¹
7. Noun. A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking ¹
8. Noun. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment ¹
9. Noun. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shingle
1. to cover with shingles (thin, oblong pieces of building material) [v -GLED, -GLING, -GLES]
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