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What's The Definition Of 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.
\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.
\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.
\Shin"gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.