Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle.
- 4transitive verb
To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
- 5transitive verb
To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof.
- 6transitive verb
To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
- 7noun
a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.
- 8noun
coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)
- 9noun
building material used as siding or roofing
Synonyms
- 10verb
cover with shingles
"shingle a roof"
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