shale

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/ʃeɪl/ English

Definitions

noun

A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

verb

To take off the shell or coat of.

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Synonyms

shell tar bituminous slate schist blackboard whiteboard nolichucky claystone siltstone argillite phyllite mudstone bituminous shale argillaceous rock sedimentary rock

Associated

kerogen argillaceous retort pyrolysis fracking geologic chert quartzite devonian vapors ordovician alluvium

Rhymes

wail gale avail frail assail travail prevail entail stale unveil

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