shingle
shingle is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
- noun. 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. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
- transitive verb. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
- transitive verb. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
- transitive verb. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
- noun. a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- noun. coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- noun. building material used as siding or roofing
- verb. cover with shingles
"shingle a roof"
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Other playable words that use exactly the letters in shingle:
Common word forms
shingled, shingler, shingles, shingling
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