Shale

Etymology
schale: 'shell, husk; scale', from scealu: 'shell, husk, pod', from  (cf. West Frisian skaal: 'dish', Dutch schaal: 'shell', German Schale: 'husk, pod'), from  'split, cleaved' (cf. Lithuanian skalà: 'splinter' Old Church Slavonic undefined: 'rock, stone', Albanian halë: 'fish bone, splinter', Sanskrit undefined: 'small part'), from *(s)kel- 'to split, cleave' (cf. Hittite iškalla: 'to tear apart, slit open', Lithuanian skélti: 'to split', Ancient Greek undefined: 'to hoe, harrow').

Noun

 * 1) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
 * 2)  A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.

Derived terms

 * shaley
 * shaly

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Catalan: esquist
 * Chinese:
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 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
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 * Georgian: თიხიანი ფიქალი
 * Italian:
 * Russian: сланец
 * Spanish: ,
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Verb

 * 1) To take off the shell or coat of.

Synonyms

 * shell

Translations

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Anagrams

 * hales
 * halse
 * heals
 * leash
 * Sahel
 * Selah

Noun

 * 1) bus

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