shaling

Again the peculiar "shaling" sound, as of water breaking over some deeply submerged obstruction, came floating down to me from to windward!

Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship Harry Collingwood 1886

This was so pronounced that it set the sea all a-quiver with ripples, which seemed to run in the direction of all the points of the compass, crossing and recrossing each other at every conceivable angle with such rapidity that the "shaling" of the water was like that of a strong rapid, while the interlacing -- so to speak -- of the ripples created

The First Mate The Story of a Strange Cruise Harry Collingwood 1886

He climbed up the embankment, pushing the stock of his Springfield into the shaling dirt, and then he saw it curving out of the woods with the long stream of smoke blowing back flatly over the tops of the cars.

The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

But even while the tobacco was filling and shaling off the dented paper, before he wadded it all up and dropped it out of his palm into the ashtray, I already saw the dark change of mood, the vulnerable piece in his stoic armor, the brass wheels of disciplined empathy shearing against one another.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

He wore no socks under his half-topped boots, and the area above his ankles was hairless and chafed a dead, shaling color.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

I let off the whole clip at the slit, the concrete shaling and powdering away like wisps of smoke in the gray air, and then I pulled back into the ditch and pressed in another clip with my thumb.

The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986

They found crumbling and shaling cliffs which showed the bite of the waters.

Boy Scouts in the Canal Zone The Plot Against Uncle Sam 1909