Canadian English Meaning of shingle

Shingle

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Definitions and Meaning of shingle in English

Wordnet

shingle (n)

building material used as siding or roofing

coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

Wordnet

shingle (v)

cover with shingles

Webster

shingle (n.)

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.

A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.

Webster

shingle (v. t.)

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

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.

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Shingle

building material used as siding or roofing, coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel), a small

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shiness => Shyness, shiner => shiner, shined => shone, shine up => polish up, shine at => shines at,