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Definition of Shale

Shale

  1. A shell or husk; a cod or pod.
  2. A fine-grained sedimentary rock of a thin, laminated, and often friable, structure.
  3. To take off the shell or coat of; to shell.

Shale Translations

shale in German is Stein
shale in Hungarian is agyagpala
shale in Italian is sasso
shale in Spanish is esquisto, empinado
shale in Swedish is lerskiffer

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