shingle

A thin piece of wood having parallel sides and being thicker at one end than the other, used like a tile or a slate in covering the sides and roofs of houses; a wooden tile.

A small sign-board, especially that of a professional man: as, to hang out one’s shingle.

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

To cut (the hair) so that streaks of it overlap like rows of shingles; hence, to cut (the hair, or the hair of) very close.

In puddling iron, to hammer roughly or squeeze (the ball of metal).

A kind of water-worn detritus a little coarser than gravel: a term most generally used with reference to debris on the sea-shore, and much more commonly in the British Islands than in the United States.

Girth; hence, the waist; the middle.

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

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

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.