shingle

shingle
    n 1: building material used as siding or roofing [syn:
         {shingle}, {shake}]
    2: coarse beach gravel of small waterworn 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 1: cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
    

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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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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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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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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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