n. | 1. | (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. |
| 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. |
| 2. | A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. |
v. t. | 1. | To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. |
| 2. | To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. |
| 1. | To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. |