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Definitions for: Shingle
[n] a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
[n] coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
[n] building material used as siding or roofing
[v] cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
Webster (1913) Definition: Shin"gle, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse
gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.)
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. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula,
scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t.,
Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? 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. --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.
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron
from the pudding furnace.
Synonyms: shake
See Also: building material, crushed rock, gravel, roof, sign, signboard
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