shingle

A thin piece of wood having parallel sides and being thicker at one end than the other, used like a tile or a slate in covering the sides and roofs of houses; a wooden tile.

A small sign-board, especially that of a professional man.

To cover with shingles.

To cut (the hair) so that streaks of it overlap like rows of shingles; hence, to cut (the hair, or the hair of) very close.

In puddling iron, to hammer roughly or squeeze (the ball of metal).