a small thin piece of building material, usu wood, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building

dated a woman's short haircut in which the hair is shaped into the nape of the neck

NAmer a small signboard, esp one indicating the office of a doctor, lawyer, etc

Laitner … permitted Arobin's name to decorate the firm's letterheads and to appear upon a shingle that graced Perdido Street — Kate Chopin

to cover (a roof, etc) with shingles

The cabin's plank walls were supplemented with sheets of corrugated iron, its roof shingled with tin cans hammered flat — Harper Lee

to cut (hair) in a shingle

It had been necessary to shingle the hair as closely as possible — L M Montgomery