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• Shingle

  ·vt To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. II. Shingle ·noun A sign for an office or a shop...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• shingle

  A jocose term for a sign-board, placed over a shop-door or office. Doctors and dentists from the Un...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• shingle-splitting

  vb. n. obsolete Tasmanianslang. 1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 89: «When a man gets behindhand ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• ballast-shingle

  Composed of coarse gravel. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• shingle-tramper

  A coast-guard man. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book