1. [noun] A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
2. [noun] A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
3. [noun] A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).
4. [verb] (transitive) To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
5. [verb] (transitive) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
6. [verb] (transitive) (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
7. [verb] To lash with a shingle.
8. [noun] A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
9. [noun] (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment
10. [noun] Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
11. [noun] Building material used as siding or roofing.
12. [noun] Coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel).
13. [noun] A small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g..
14. [verb] Cover with shingles; 'shingle a roof'.
