SHALED

Verb

shaled

simple past tense and past participle of shale

Anagrams

• Dahles, Healds, Shadle, adshel, halsed, healds, lashed

Source: Wiktionary


SHALE

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



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