SHINGLE
\ʃˈɪŋɡə͡l], \ʃˈɪŋɡəl], \ʃ_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɡ_əl]\
Definitions of SHINGLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
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a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
By Princeton University
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cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
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a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
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To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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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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A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
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To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
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To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
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To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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A thin piece of wood used for roofing; humorously, a signboard, as for an office; coarse, round, water-worn gravel.
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To cover, as a roof, with thin pieces of wood; to cut (the hair) short.
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Shingler.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Wood sawed or split thin, used instead of slates or tiles, for covering houses: the coarse gravel on the shores of rivers or of the sea.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Norse, German, Latin] A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, in order to lap lengthwise, used in covering buildings, especially the roof;— round, water- worn, and loose gravel and pebbles on shores and coasts.
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