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shale


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  2.  [G.  shale.]  (Geol.)  A  fine-grained  sedimentary  rock  of  a 
  thin,  laminated,  and  often  friable,  structure. 
 
  {Bituminous  shale}.  See  under  {Bituminous}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shale  \Shale\,  v.  t. 
  To  take  off  the  shell  or  coat  of  to  shell. 
 
  Life,  in  its  upper  grades,  was  bursting  its  shell,  or 
  was  shaling  off  its  husk.  --I.  Taylor. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shale 
  n  :  a  sedimentary  rock  formed  by  the  deposition  of  successive 
  layers  of  clay 




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