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Meaning of 'shingle' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.
- 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.
- A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
2 . Shingle [ v. t.]
- To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
- To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
- To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Meaning of 'shingle' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . shingle [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cover with shingles
Example in sentence:
  • shingle a roof

Nearby Words:

shiah shibboleth shide shie shied shiel shield shield-bearer shielddrake shielded

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