Shingle

Word SHINGLE
Character 7
Hyphenation shin gle
Pronunciations /ˈʃɪŋ.ɡəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Shingle"

What do we mean by shingle?

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.

A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

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).

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The word "shingle" in example sentences

Rapping the knife with a baton, split a thin shingle from the side of a dry wood block. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Every time a shingle is added to the gimcrack, ramshackle governance structure that we're propping up, another door falls off its hinges. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But hanging out a shingle is suddenly on the upswing, especially among people over 50. ❋ Julia Moulden (2010)

Savills International and Aylesford Indigenous materials were used during construction wherever possible, including rock and shingle from the local riverbeds and aggregate for the concrete during building. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you remember, DiCaprio's production shingle is also behind Warner Bros 'live-action "Akira." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Hanging out your own shingle is more difficult than ever before. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He was responsible for the old tin shingle roof being ruined forever. ❋ Deep_bluze (2005)

I've cast a somewhat jaundiced eye on some of their tag team consultant bashing, considering that their own consultancy shingle is still hanging high (and despite Kos 'assurance that he's mostly out of the biz, he's still a partner in the firm which is still trading on his (well-deserved) high profile in the progressive community). ❋ Unknown (2005)

They are daintily small, like play houses indeed, built of a thin shingle-like board, fine in texture. ❋ Unknown (1890)

The swamps, indeed, became known as shingle mines, and it was a good description of them. ❋ Sydney George Fisher (1891)

Just beyond Otter Point he came to an inlet called Otter Cove, with a broad tidal flat of rounded pebbles that the English call a shingle beach. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Her hair was cut in what I knew was once called a shingle bob, and she was chewing gum. ❋ Finney, Jack (1995)

The shingle is a very thin pine-board, which is used throughout the colony instead of slate or tiles. ❋ Susanna Moodie (1844)

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