SHINGLE

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

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Etymology 1

Noun

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).

Verb

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

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.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

A punitive strap such as a belt.

(by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3

Noun

shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)

Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

Anagrams

• English, Hingles, english

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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