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3 definitions for Shale From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Shale \Shale\, v. t.
To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
[1913 Webster]
Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or
was shaling off its husk. --I. Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Shale \Shale\, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.] 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 2. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. [1913 Webster] Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous. [1913 Webster]From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
shale
n : a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive
layers of clay
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