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Shingle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

3. The plain of La Crau in France, is composed of shingle . Pinkerton .

4. Shingles , plural [Latin cingulum , ] a kind of tetter or herpes which spreads around the body like a girdle; an eruptive disease.

Shingle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

Shingle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.

2. 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.

3. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

Shingle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.

2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.

3. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.

Shingled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Covered with shingles.

Shingled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Shingle

Shingler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who shingles.

2. A machine for shingling puddled iron.

Shingles [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.