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Definition shale
Etymology
From Middle English schale (“shell, husk; scale”), from Old English s?ealu (“shell, husk, pod”), from Proto-Germanic *skal? (compare West Frisian skaal (“dish”), Dutch schaal (“shell”), schalie (“shale”), German Schale (“husk, pod”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cut”) (compare Lithuanian skalŕ (“splinter”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (skala, “rock, stone”), Polish ska?a (“rock”), Albanian halë (“fish bone, splinter”), Sanskrit ?? (kalá, “small part”)), from to split, cleave (compare Hittite [script needed] (iškalla, “to tear apart, slit open”), Lithuanian skélti (“to split”), Ancient Greek ?????? (skáll?, “to hoe, harrow”)). Doublet of scale. See also shell.
Noun
shale (countable and uncountable, plural shales)
- A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
Verb
shale (third-person singular simple present shales, present participle shaling, simple past and past participle shaled)
- To take off the shell or coat of.
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