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shingle

('/S//I//N/g/@/l )

building material used as siding or roofing(noun.substance)

Synonym:
shake

source: wordnet30
coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)(noun.substance)

source: wordnet30
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.(noun.artifact)

source: wordnet30
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.(noun)

source: webster1913
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.(noun)

source: webster1913

cover with shingles(verb.contact)

Example:
Shingle a roof.

source: wordnet30
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.(verb)

source: webster1913
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.(verb)

source: webster1913

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