Thesaurus: shale

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1. n. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
2. n. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
3. v. t. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
4. n. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
5. 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman. 2. Etym: [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous. 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.
6. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and oftenfriable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
7. n:100 n. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay