unshale

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verb

To strip of the shale (shell) or husk

“unshale the rice”

Scrabble 10

Meanings

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

present singular third person unshales · participle present unshaling · participle past unshaled · past unshaled

  1. obsoleterareTo strip of the shale (shell) or husk

    unshale the rice

    1 more example

    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. figurativelyobsoleterareto uncover.

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