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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)

  1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  2. (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)

  1. To take off the shell or coat of.

Results 330 Words with the letters SHALE

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4 letter words with the letters SHALE 
ALES 5
HAES 6
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HEAL 7
LASE 5
LASH 7
LEAS 5
SALE 5
SEAL 5
SHEA 6
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ALS 4
ASH 5
ELS 4
HAE 5
HAS 5
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LAS 4
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SAE 3
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2 letter words with the letters SHALE 
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AH 4
AL 3
AS 2
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EL 3
ES 2
HA 4
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LA 3
SH 4

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