Shale /(?)/
Shale
n.
- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. (Geol.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Bituminous shale
- See under Bituminous.
Shale
v. t.
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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.