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