shingle

A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.

I reached St. Asaph, a Bishop's See, where there is a very poor Cathedral Church, covered with Shingles or Tiles

A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.

A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).

He [...] hung a shingle as a barber.

When [these attorneys] were born, in the early decades of the 19th century, being a lawyer meant putting out a shingle and representing your neighbors.

A word-based n-gram.

In the second phase, we produce a list of all the shingles and the documents they appear in, sorted by shingle value.

To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.

To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

To increase the storage density of (a hard disk) by writing tracks that partially overlap.

To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.

To beat with a shingle.