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Shale
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
(2):
(n.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
(3):
(v. t.) To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shale'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shale.html. 1828.