shingle

Etymology 1
From, from , a late variant of , from , borrowed from , from , from , from. .

Noun



 * 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 rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
 * 3) 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) * 2022, Peter S. Canellos, interviewed by Ronald Collins in eGreater than Holmes? The life and legacy of John Marshall Harlan, SCOTUSblog, April 13 2022
 * When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.
 * 1)  A word-based n-gram.
 * When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.
 * 1)  A word-based n-gram.

Translations

 * Albanian:, , ,
 * Cherokee: ᏒᏓᎷᎩ
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: takspónur
 * Finnish:, ; kattolaatta;
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: päre
 * Italian: scandola
 * Japanese: 杮板,
 * Ladin: scintla
 * Latin: scandula
 * Mazanderani: لت
 * Norman: seingl'ye
 * Ottoman Turkish: پداوره, شندره
 * Persian: شینگل
 * Plautdietsch: Schindel
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ши́ндель
 * Samogitian: guonts
 * Spanish: ,
 * Vilamovian: śynduł


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: nimikyltti
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Mazanderani:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1)  To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
 * 2)  To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
 * 3)  To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

Translations

 * Albanian: mbuloj me dhoga
 * French:
 * German: mit Schindeln decken
 * Hungarian:, zsindellyel fed
 * Italian: ricoprire con tegole
 * Portuguese:, entelhar
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 2
From dialectal, from , from.

Verb

 * 1)  To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
 * 2)  To beat with a shingle.

Noun

 * 1) A punitive strap such as a belt.
 * 2)  Any paddle used for corporal punishment.

Etymology 3
From, , , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬, imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

Noun

 * 1) Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

Translations

 * Albanian: guralecë
 * Czech: oblázky
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: pikkukivet
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: mol
 * Spanish: