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shale
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RELATED WORDS :
alum shale
humic shale
oil shale
shale oil
POS
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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun
shale
has 1 sense
shale
(n = noun.substance)
- a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay;
is a kind of
sedimentary rock
has particulars:
humic shale
,
oil shale
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CIDE DICTIONARY
shale
,
n.
[AS.
scealy
,
scalu
. See
Scalme
, and cf.
Shell
.].
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
Chapman.
[
1913 Webster
]
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. [
1913 Webster
]
Bituminous shale
.
See under
Bituminous
.
shale
,
v. t.
To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. [
1913 Webster
]
"
Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was
shaling
off its husk.
" [
1913 Webster
]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
shale
, n. soft finely stratified rock that splits easily, consisting of consolidated mud or clay.
Idiom
shale oil oil obtained from bituminous shale.
Derivative
shaly adj.
Etymology
prob. f. G Schale f. OE sc(e)alu rel. to ON sk{aacute}l (see SCALE(2))
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