Thesaurus

(n) : 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; a rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel

(v) : to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles; to hammer and squeeze material in order to expell cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy