shingle
(noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
shingle
(noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
shingle, shake
(noun) building material used as siding or roofing
shingle
(verb) cover with shingles; “shingle a roof”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
shingle (plural shingles)
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.
A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
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).
shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)
(transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
(transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)
(transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
(transitive) To beat with a shingle.
shingle (plural shingles)
A punitive strap such as a belt.
(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.
shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)
Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
• English, Hingles, english
Source: Wiktionary
Shin"gle, n. Etym: [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
Definition: Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shin"gle, n. Etym: [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr.
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.
Shin"gle, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.]
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.
Shin"gle, v. t.
Definition: To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 June 2025
(adverb) in a dispirited manner without hope; “the first Mozartian opera to be subjected to this curious treatment ran dispiritedly for five performances”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
