Shingle

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Shingling}.]
     1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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              They shingle their houses with it.    --Evelyn.


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     2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all
        over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t.
     To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron
     from the pudding furnace.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shingle \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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shingle \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.
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              I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very
              poor cathedral church covered with shingles or
              tiles.                                --Ray.
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     2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's
        shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
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     {Shingle oak} (Bot.), a kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria})
        used in the Western States for making shingles.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  149 Moby Thesaurus words for "shingle":
     arch over, bank, barber, beach, beam, berm, bestraddle, bestride,
     billet, board, boarding, bob, breccia, brick, bridge, ceiling,
     clapboard, coast, coastland, coastline, coif, coiffure, conk, cord,
     cordwood, deal, debris, detritus, driftwood, eaves, embankment,
     extend over, face, firewood, foreshore, glass, glaze, grain,
     granule, granulet, gravel, grit, hang over, hardwood, housetop,
     imbricate, ironbound coast, jut, lantern, lap, lap over, lath,
     lathing, lathwork, lido, lie over, littoral, log, lumber, overarch,
     overhang, overhead, overlap, overlie, override, panelboard,
     paneling, panelwork, paper, penthouse, plafond, plage, plank,
     planking, playa, plyboard, plywood, pole, pompadour, post, process,
     puncheon, revet, ride, ridgepole, riverside, riviera,
     rockbound coast, roof, roof garden, roof-deck, roofage, roofing,
     roofpole, rooftop, rooftree, sand, sands, sea margin, seabank,
     seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shake,
     sheathe, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingles, shore,
     shoreline, sideboard, slab, slat, slate, slates, softwood, span,
     splat, stave, stick, stick of wood, stone, stovewood, strand,
     submerged coast, thatch, three-by-four, tidewater, tile, tiles,
     timber, timbering, timberwork, top, trim, two-by-four, veneer,
     wall in, wall up, wallpaper, waterfront, waterside, wave,
     weatherboard, wood