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Gauge :: Gauge (n.) That part of a shingle, slate, or tile, which is exposed to the weather, when laid; also, one course of such shingles, slates, or tiles..

Broadleaf :: Broadleaf (n.) A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almond tree, from the shape of its fruit..

Imbrication :: Imbrication (n.) An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure..

Shingle :: Shingle (n.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere..

Rive :: Rive (v. t.) To rend asunder by force; to split; to cleave; as, to rive timber for rails or shingles..

Herpes :: Herpes (n.) An eruption of the skin, taking various names, according to its form, or the part affected; especially, an eruption of vesicles in small distinct clusters, accompanied with itching or tingling, including shingles, ringworm, and the like; -- so called from its tendency to creep or spread from one part of the skin to another..

Shingle :: Shingle (v. t.) To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof..

Shingle :: Shingle (n.) A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle..

Shingle :: Shingle (v. t.) To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof..

Throe :: Throe (n.) A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Zoster :: Zoster (n.) Shingles.

Siding :: Siding (n.) The covering of the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like..

Bare :: Bare (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather..

Frow :: Frow (n.) A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower..

Flashing :: Flashing (n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting..

Shingler :: Shingler (n.) A machine for shingling puddled iron.

Shingled :: Shingled (imp. &. p. p.) of Shingl.

Sarking :: Sarking (n.) Thin boards for sheathing, as above the rafters, and under the shingles or slates, and for similar purposes..

Groin :: Groin (n.) A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.

Lap :: Lap (n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one..

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