shingle
📖 Definitions
noun
1. A tile laid in overlapping rows to cover walls or roofs.
2. A small signboard indicating a professional office. Used in the phrase “to hang one’s shingle”.
3. A woman’s close-cropped haircut tapering from the back of the head to the nape.
4. Waterworn pebbles found on a beach.
5. A place where such pebbles are found.
verb tr.
1. To cover with shingles or to lay out something in an overlapping manner.
2. To cut hair in a shingle.
3. To squeeze or hammer puddled iron to remove impurities.
💬 Usage Examples
“[Limited license legal technicians] apprentice under a lawyer for 3,000 hours before they hang their shingles.” Robert Ambrogi; Who Says You Need a Law Degree to Practice Law?; The Washington Post; Mar 15, 2015. “Some decisions are carefully constructed towers of logic framed in lists of pros and cons, shingled in trusted advice.” G.P.
Ching; The Grounded Trilogy Book One; Carpe Luna; 2014. “Officers tracked the woman down using the car’s registration number and gave her advice that taking shingle from the beach was illegal.” Woman Who ‘Stole’ Pebbles from a Beach; The Mirror (London, UK); Oct 2, 2013.