3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shale \Shale\, v. t. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell. [1913 Webster] Life, in its upper grades, was bursting its shell, or was shaling off its husk. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Shale \Shale\, n. [AS. scealy, scalu. See {Scalme}, and cf. {Shell}.] 1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod. "The green shales of a bean." --Chapman. [1913 Webster] 2. [G. shale.] (Geol.) A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure. [1913 Webster] {Bituminous shale}. See under {Bituminous}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: shale n : a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
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