shingle

• building material used as siding or roofing
• coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
• a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
• cover with shingles
• 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
• To cover with shingles
• 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

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