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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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