Found 2 items, similar to shingle.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: shingle 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. shingle v : cover with shingles; “shingle a roof”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Shingle Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. --Ray. [1913 Webster] 2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.] [1913 Webster] Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles. [1913 Webster] Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [1913 Webster] They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. [1913 Webster]