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3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Shale \Shale\, verb (used with an object) 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Shale \Shale\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: shale noun: a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay | |||
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