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. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and oftenfriable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
6. n:100 n. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay