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ALL meanings of shingle

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  • noun shingle stony beach 1
  • noun shingle roof or wall tile 1
  • noun shingle small stones, gravel 1
  • noun shingle virus causing pain and rash 1
  • noun shingle small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach. 1
  • noun shingle a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones. 1
  • verb with object shingle to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble. 1
  • idioms shingle hang out one's shingle, Informal. to establish a professional practice, especially in law or medicine; open an office. 1
  • idioms shingle have / be a shingle short, Australian Slang. to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric. 1
  • uncountable noun shingle Shingle is a mass of small rough pieces of stone on the shore of a sea or a river. 0
  • uncountable noun shingle Shingles is a disease in which painful red spots spread in bands over a person's body, especially around their waist. 0
  • countable noun shingle Shingles are thin pieces of wood or another material which are fixed in rows to cover a roof or wall. 0
  • countable noun shingle A shingle is a small sign that is hung outside a building, such as the place where a doctor or lawyer works. 0
  • noun shingle a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall 0
  • noun shingle a woman's short-cropped hairstyle 0
  • noun shingle a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc 0
  • verb shingle to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles 0
  • verb shingle to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style 0
  • noun shingle coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches 0
  • noun shingle a place or area strewn with shingle 0
  • verb shingle to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron 0
  • noun shingle large, coarse, waterworn gravel, as found on a beach 0
  • noun shingle an area, as a beach, covered with this 0
  • noun shingle a thin, wedge-shaped piece of wood, slate, etc. laid with others in a series of overlapping rows as a covering for roofs and the sides of houses 0
  • noun shingle a woman's short haircut in which the hair over the nape is shaped close to the head 0
  • noun shingle a small signboard, esp. that which a physician or lawyer hangs outside his or her office 0
  • verb transitive shingle to cover (a roof, etc.) with shingles 0
  • verb transitive shingle to cut (hair) in shingle style 0
  • verb transitive shingle to work on (puddled iron) by hammering and squeezing it to remove impurities 0
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