Shingle
Shingle , noun
[Probably from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.]
(Geology) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle , noun
[Old English shingle, shindle, from Latin scindula, scandula; compare scindere to cleave, to split, English shed, transitive verb, Greek {not transcribed}, {not transcribed}, shingle, {not transcribed} to slit.]
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.
2.
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, United States]
Collocations (1)
Shingle oak (Botany) , a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.
Shingle , transitive verb
1.
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it.
2.
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
Shingle , transitive verb
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.