Webster's English Dictionaryshingle
1. shin.gle \'shin-g*l\ n [ME schingel] 1: 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: a small signboard 3: a woman's haircut with the hair trimmed short from the back of the head to the nape 2. shingle \-g(*-)lin\ vt or shin.gling 1: to cover with or as if with shingles 2: to bob and shape (the hair) in a shingle 3: to lay or dispose so as to overlap 3. shingle n [prob. of Scand origin; akin to Norw singel coarse gravel] 1: coarse rounded detritus or alluvial material esp. on the seashore that d iffers from ordinary gravel only in the larger size of the stones 2: a place strewn with shingle 4. shingle \-g(*-)lin\ vt or shin.gling [F dial. chingler, lit., to whip, fr. MF dial., fr. chingle strap,]fr. L cingula, fr. cingere to gird - more at CINCTURE : to subject (as iron) to the process of expelling cinder and impurities by hammering and squeezing