Meaning

noun building material used as siding or roofing

noun coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel)

noun a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g.

originFrom Middle English shyngel, alteration of Old English sċindel, from Proto-West Germanic *skindulā, borrowed from Late Latin scindula, from Latin scandula, from Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”). Doublet of shindle.

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