shale
(noun) a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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.
Before the mid 19th century, the terms shale, slate and schist were not sharply distinguished. Shales that are subject to heat and pressure alter into slate, then schist and finally to gneiss.
shale (third-person singular simple present shales, present participle shaling, simple past and past participle shaled)
To take off the shell or coat of.
• shell
• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, leash, selah, sheal
Source: Wiktionary
Shale, n. Etym: [AS. scealy, scalu. See Scalme, and cf. Shell.]
1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." Chapman.
2. Etym: [G. shale.] (Geol.)
Definition: A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. Bituminous shale. See under Bituminous.
Shale, v. t.
Definition: To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. I. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
