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shale

/ʃeɪl/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  2. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  3. To take off the shell or coat of.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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