- a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings.
- a woman's close-cropped haircut.
- a small signboard, especially as hung before a doctor's or lawyer's office.
- to cover with shingles, as a roof.
- to cut (hair) close to the head.
- to establish a professional practice, especially in law or medicine; open an office.
- to be mentally disturbed, mad, or eccentric.
- small, waterworn stones or pebbles such as lie in loose sheets or beds on a beach.
- a beach, riverbank, or other area covered with such small pebbles or stones.
- to hammer or squeeze (puddled iron) into a bloom or billet, eliminating as much slag as possible; knobble.
- a thin rectangular tile, esp one made of wood, that is laid with others in overlapping rows to cover a roof or a wall
- a woman's short-cropped hairstyle
- a small signboard or nameplate fixed outside the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc
- unintelligent or mentally subnormal
- to cover (a roof or a wall) with shingles
- to cut (the hair) in a short-cropped style
- coarse gravel, esp the pebbles found on beaches
- a place or area strewn with shingle
- to hammer or squeeze the slag out of (iron) after puddling in the production of wrought iron
