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1.verbTo cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
2.verbTo cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.
3.verbTo hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
4.verbTo beat with a shingle.
5.nounThe act of covering with shingles.
6.nounShingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles.
7.nounThe process of expelling scoriae and other impurities by hammering and squeezing, in the production of wrought iron.