Shingle

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. 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. Shingle oak (Bot.) a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.
v. t.	1.	To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [imp. & p. p. Shingled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling .] 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.
	1.	To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Noun	1.	shingle - building material used as siding or roofing Synonyms: shake
	2.	shingle - coarse beach gravel of small water-worn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
	3.	shingle - a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
Verb	1.	shingle - cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"

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