Shale vs Spale - What's the difference?
shale | spale |
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
* Chapman
(geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
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To take off the shell or coat of.
A chip or splinter of wood.
A lath; a shaving or chip, as of wood or stone.
A strengthening cross timber.
(ship-building) One of a number of cross-bands fastened temprarily to the frames to keep them in place until properly secured; a spaling.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between shale and spale
is that shale is saddle while spale is a chip or splinter of wood.shale
English
(wikipedia shale)Noun
(en noun)- the green shales of a bean
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