meaning of shales
1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
2. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
3. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
4. a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
Related Words
shale | shale oil | shall | shall-flower | shalli | shallon | shalloon | shallop | shallot | shallow | shallow fording | shallow-bodied | shallow-brained | shallow-draft | shallow-draught | shallow-hearted | shallow-pated | shallow-waisted | shallowly | shallowness | shallu | shalm | shalom asch | shalt | shalwar | shaly |
