Dictionary Entry
shale
shale is a 5-letter English word with 4 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A shell or husk; a cod or pod. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
- 2noun
A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
- 3transitive verb
To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.
- 4noun
a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
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