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Pronunciation : Shale
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.]
Definition : 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.

2. Etym: [G. shale.] (Geol.)

Defn: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Shale
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.

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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913