noun. A thin piece of wood having parallel sides and being thicker at one end than the other, used like a tile or a slate in covering the sides and roofs of houses; a wooden tile.

noun. A small sign-board, especially that of a professional man: as, to hang out one's shingle.

To cover with shingles: as, to shingle a roof.

To cut (the hair) so that streaks of it overlap like rows of shingles; hence, to cut (the hair, or the hair of) very close.

In puddling iron, to hammer roughly or squeeze (the ball of metal).

noun. A kind of water-worn detritus a little coarser than gravel: a term most generally used with reference to debris on the sea-shore, and much more commonly in the British Islands than in the United States.

noun. Girth; hence, the waist; the middle.

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

transitive verb. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

noun. 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.

noun. A sign for an office or a shop.

noun. a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.

transitive verb. To cover with shingles.

transitive verb. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

noun. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

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.

noun. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

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).

verb. To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.

verb. To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

verb. To lash with a shingle.

noun. A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking

noun. Any paddle used for corporal punishment

noun. building material used as siding or roofing

noun. coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

noun. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

verb. cover with shingles

"Rapping the knife with a baton, split a thin shingle from the side of a dry wood block."

dimension shingle  metallic shingle  shaved shingle  shingle ballast  shingle-jointing machine  

hang out one's shingle  shingled  shingler  shingling  shingly  

building material  crushed rock  gravel  roof  sign  

Dingle  Pringle  bingle  commingle  dingle  

boulder  cement  clay  cobblestone  dirt  

arch over  bank  barber  beach  beam  

shingled  shingles  shingling