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unshale

unshale verb: to strip of the shale (shell) or husk.

Verb

unshale (third-person singular simple present unshales, present participle unshaling, simple past and past participle unshaled)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To strip of the shale (shell) or husk
    • unshale the rice
    • I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe.1604 (date written), Iohn Marston [i.e., John Marston], Parasitaster, or The Fawne, […], London: […] T[homas] P[urfoot] for W[illiam] C[otton], published 1606, →OCLC, (please specify the page)
    1. (figuratively, obsolete, rare) to uncover.

Forms of unshale

third-person singular presentunshales
present participleunshaling
past participleunshaled
pastunshaled

Origin of unshale

From un- + shale.

Questions about unshale

What does unshale mean?
Unshale means to strip of the shale (shell) or husk.
What part of speech is unshale?
Unshale is a verb.
What is the past tense of unshale?
The past tense of unshale is unshaled.

Words near unshale in the dictionary

  1. unshakes
  2. unShakespearean
  3. unshaking
  4. unshakingly
  5. unshaky
  6. unshale
  7. unshaled
  8. unshales
  9. unshaling
  10. unshallow
  11. unshamable

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