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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SHIN'GLE, n. [Gr.; L. scinkula, from scindo.]
1. A thin board sawed or rived for covering buildings. Shingles are of different lengths, with one end much thinner than the other for lapping. They are used for covering roofs and sometimes the body of the builking.
2. Round gravel, or a collection of roundish stones.
The plain of La Crau in France, is composed of shingle. Pinkerton.
3. Shingles, plu. [L. cingulum,] a kind of tetter or herpes which spreads around the body like a girdle; an eruptive disease.
SHIN'GLE, v.t. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English schingel, alteration of Old English scindel, from Medieval Latin scindula, alteration of Latin scandula Date: 13th century 1. a small thin piece of building material often with one end thicker than the other for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building 2. a small signboard especially designating a professional office — used chiefly in the phrase hang out one's shingle 3. a woman's haircut with the hair trimmed short from the back of the head to the nape II. transitive verb (shingled; shingling) Date: 1562 1. to cover with or as if with shingles 2. to bob and shape (the hair) in a shingle 3. to lay out or arrange so as to overlap • shingler noun III. noun Etymology: Middle English chyngell; akin to Middle Low German singel seashore gravel Date: 15th century 1. coarse rounded detritus or alluvial material especially on the seashore that differs from ordinary gravel only in the larger size of the stones 2. a place strewn with shingle • shingly adjective

Britannica Concise

Thin piece of building material made of wood, asphaltic material, slate, metal, or concrete, laid in overlapping rows to shed water. Shingles are widely used as roof covering on residential buildings and sometimes also for siding (see Shingle style). Wood shingles in the U.S. are usually made of cypress, redwood, or Western red cedar.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. (in sing. or pl.) small rounded pebbles, esp. on a sea-shore. Derivatives: shingly adj. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. uncert. 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a rectangular wooden tile used on roofs, spires, or esp. walls. 2 archaic a shingled hair. b the act of shingling hair. 3 US a small signboard, esp. of a doctor, lawyer, etc. --v.tr. 1 roof or clad with shingles. 2 archaic a cut (a woman's hair) very short. b cut the hair of (a person or head) in this way. Etymology: ME app. f. L scindula, earlier scandula

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.] Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shingle Shin"gle, v. t. [imp. &. p. p. Shingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Shingle Shin"gle, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(shingles) 1. Shingle is a mass of small rough pieces of stone on the shore of a sea or a river. ...a beach of sand and shingle. 2. Shingles is a disease in which painful red spots spread in bands over a person's body, especially around their waist.

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