SHINGLE

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. I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray.

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.

To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn.

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.