coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
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a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
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cover with shingles
<verb.contact> shingle a roof
Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones.] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, n. [OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. ???, ???, shingle, ??? to slit.] 1. 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.
I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. --Ray.
2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [Jocose, U. S.]
{Shingle oak} (Bot.), a kind of oak ({Quercus imbricaria}) used in the Western States for making shingles.
Shingle \Shin"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shingled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shingling}.] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
They shingle their houses with it. --Evelyn.
2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
He warned that swimmers could catch it through cuts, sunburn sores and shingle scuffs.
It has a proper roof of cedar shingle which should protect from mild showers.
Other methods such as hosing the beach destroy plantlife and small shellfish. In the case of the Alaskan spill, workers from Exxon and US environmental groups spent much time sitting on the shingle scrubbing boulders and pebbles individually.
Now Mr. Volcker, too, can put out a shingle and start a consulting firm of his own.
The down-and-out protagonist, Jack Shannon (played by Jamey Sheridan) is a disillusioned corporate attorney who leaves big business _ and hopefully, his gambling addiction _ to hang out his shingle in a blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood.
Whether you are painting the outside of your house, removing leaves from the gutter, repairing a damaged roof shingle or just trying to recover a rubber ball that has lost its way, an extension ladder is something you need when you need it.