shingle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun building material used as siding or roofing
    shake.
  2. noun coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
  3. noun a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
  4. verb cover with shingles
    • shingle a roof

WordNet

Shin"gle noun
Etymology
Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.
Definitions
  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.
Shin"gle noun
Etymology
OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v.t., Gr. , , shingle, to slit.
Definitions
  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.
Shin"gle transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Shingled ; present participle & verbal noun Shingling
Definitions
  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 transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Webster 1913