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Shaly

Shaly \Shal"y\, a. Resembling shale in structure.

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shaly

a. Pertaining to or resembling shale. alt. Pertaining to or resembling shale.

Usage examples of "shaly".

To tell it concisely, Yama had to miss out the fear and tension he had felt during every moment of his adventures, the long hours of discomfort when he had tried to sleep in wet clothes on the ftw of the banyan, his growing hunger and thirst while wandering the hot shaly land of the Silent Quarter of the City of the Dead.

I do not enter into the mathematical analysis of modern geologists respecting them, as to their constant retrocession, believing that earthquake split open the present channel, yet I have no doubt that the level of Lake Erie is considerably affected by the diminution of the yielding shaly rocks of their foundation.

Heather and gorse were becoming scantier and stretches of lichened, shaly rock beginning to show.