Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a shale or shell.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shale .
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Examples
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The chief towne of that countrey is called Zegham, from whence is caried yeerely into Persia, an incredible quantitie of Hasell nuts, all of one sort and goodnesse, and as good and thin shaled as are our Filberds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The coal shaled away from the wall until it stood in piles up to his knees.
To The Bright and Shining Sun James Lee Burke 1989
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The bark shaled off the pine from the recoil, and my right ear was momentarily wooden from the explosion.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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The wood had turned bone white from sun and rot, and tree worms had left their intricate designs in the smooth surface after the bark had cracked and shaled away in the current.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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The electric saw hummed along the cast and shaled off the plaster, and then the whole thing cracked free like a foul and corroded shell and exposed my puckered, hairless white arm.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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The trail led straight over a shaled-off pile of boulders, and zig-zagged up the slope.
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They had to increase their pace, for the sergeant was striding along over the fairly level floor, which had doubtless been lately cleared, for the lantern showed where portions of the arched roof had shaled off, though much of it was in almost the same condition as when it was laboriously chipped away with the mason's hammers, whose marks were plainly enough to be seen.
The Young Castellan A Tale of the English Civil War George Manville Fenn 1870
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You've got the up dip well which the original hole that we drilled high on the structure that had sand shaled out.
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Persia, an incredible quantitie of Hasell nuts, all of one sort and goodnesse, and as good and thin shaled as are our Filberds.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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The dirt shaled off my boots on the wet floor, but no sign of protest or irritation showed on a man’s face.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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