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Results for shingle
1. Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere.
2. 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.
3. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof.
4. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace.
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