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shingles definition and meaning

n. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
n. 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.
n. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
v. t. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
v. t. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
n. A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

Crossword clues for shingles

- Roof tile
- roofing need
- Roofing tile
- Tile
- Wood tile
- Wooden roof tile
- roofing needs
- Skin disease caused by roofing material
- Viral disease affecting nerves
- Wooden roof tiles