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Definition shingle

Etymology 1

From Middle English scincle, from Vulgar Latin scindula, from Latin scandula.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

1. A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
2. A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).

Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

1. (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2. (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

Etymology 2

From dialectal French chingler (“to strap, whip”), from Latin cingula (“girt, belt”), from cingere (“to girt”)

Verb

shingle (third-person singular simple present shingles, present participle shingling, simple past and past participle shingled)

1. (transitive, manufacturing) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
2. (transitive) To beat with a shingle.

Noun

shingle (plural shingles)

1. A punitive strap such as a belt.
2. (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3

Probably cognate to the Norwegian singl (“small stones”) or the North Frisian singel (“gravel”), both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

shingle (countable and uncountable, plural shingles)

1. Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

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