Definitions for shingle

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shingle shin·gle

Spelling: [shing-guh l]

IPA: /ˈʃɪŋ gəl/

Shingle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in shingle (eghilns).

Definitions for shingle

noun

1. a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
2. a woman's close-cropped haircut.
3. Informal. a small signboard, especially as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office.
4. small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
5. a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.

Idioms

1. hang out one's shingle, Informal. to establish a professional practice, especially in law or medicine; open an office.
2. have / be a shingle short, Australian Slang. to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with shingles, as a roof.
2. to cut (hair) close to the head.
3. to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble.

Origin of shingle

1150-1200; Middle English scincle, sc(h)ingle Medieval Latin scindula lath, shingle (Middle English -g- apparently by association with another unidentified word), Latin scandula (Medieval Lat

Examples for shingle

There was the door with its rain-water barrel, there was the shingle roof.

Pundits put out a shingle with a new website and go around asking the usual suspects for money to get them up and running.

He picked up a bit of shingle and drew a pencil from his pocket.

They accepted, and re-released their debut in 2010 on Interscope shingle Cherrytree Records to critical acclaim.

I could go to college and hang out a shingle and make $10,000 a year.

At last they reached the shingle, and he strode to her side.

The shingle recently bid its co-founder and CEO James Schamus adieu, replacing him with FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel.

On the other side of the town stretched some miles of shingle at the foot of the cliffs.

Before they were half-way to the shingle Roland felt that he had won.

This is the reason why shells and shingle are found in high elevations.