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

Saw :: Saw (v. t.) To form by cutting with a saw; as, to saw boards or planks, that is, to saw logs or timber into boards or planks; to saw shingles; to saw out a panel..

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..

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..

Shingle :: Shingle (n.) A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below..

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..

Shingling :: Shingling (n.) The act of covering with shingles; shingles, collectively; a covering made of shingles..

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

Wallaba :: Wallaba (n.) A leguminous tree (Eperua falcata) of Demerara, with pinnate leaves and clusters of red flowers. The reddish brown wood is used for palings and shingles..

Shingly :: Shingly (a.) Abounding with shingle, or gravel..

Shingle :: Shingle (v. t.) To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace..

Beach :: Beach (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle..

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

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

Shingles :: Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain..

Zoster :: Zoster (n.) Shingles.

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

Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..

Shindle :: Shindle (n.) A shingle; also, a slate for roofing..

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

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