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Shale vs Unshale - What's the difference?

shale | unshale |

As verbs the difference between shale and unshale

is that shale is to take off the shell or coat of while unshale is to strip the shale or husk from; to uncover.

As a noun shale

is a shell or husk; a cod or pod.

shale

English

(wikipedia shale)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  • * Chapman
    • the green shales of a bean
  • (geology) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=March 23, author=Patricia Leigh Brown, title=The Window Box Gets Some Tough Competition, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=As on all large green roofs, the soil is not dirt exactly but a gravel-like growing medium of granulated pumice, shales , clays and other minerals.}}

    Derived terms

    * shaley * * shaly

    Verb

    (shal)
  • To take off the shell or coat of.

    • Synonyms

    * shell

    Anagrams

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    unshale

    English

    Verb

    (unshal)
  • (obsolete) To strip the shale or husk from; to uncover.
    • I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe. — Marston.
    (Webster 1913)