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Definitions for Shingle
[1] a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
[2] a woman's close-cropped haircut.
[3] Informal . a small signboard, especially as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office.
[4] to cover with shingles, as a roof.
[5] to cut (hair) close to the head.
[6] hang out one's shingle , Informal . to establish a professional practice, especially in law or medicine; open an office.
[7] have /be a shingle short , Australian Slang . to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric.
[8] small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
[9] a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.
[10] to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble.
[11] a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall
[12] a woman's short-cropped hairstyle
[13] US and Canadian a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc
[14] a shingle short Australian informal unintelligent or mentally subnormal
[15] to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles
[16] to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style
[17] coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches
[18] a place or area strewn with shingle
[19] (tr) metallurgy to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron
Words related to Shingle
beach, coast, seashore, border, bank, sand, seaboard, waterfront, riverbank, shore, tribute, salute, sanction, license, certificate, permission, summons, subpoena, passport, permit
Words nearby Shingle
shindy, shine, shine up to, shiner, shiner perch, shingle, shingle oak, shingles, shingling, shingly, shingon
Origin of Shingle
31665–75; < French cingler to whip, beat < German zängeln, derivative of Zange tongs
Other words from Shingle
shin·gler , noun
Word origin for Shingle
C17: from Old French dialect chingler to whip, from chingle belt, from Latin cingula girdle; see cingulum
Synonyms for Shingle
bank, coast, littoral, oceanfront, seaboard, seafront, seaside, shore, strand, waterfront