unshale

From un- +‎ shale.

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

   1. (obsolete, rare, figurative) to uncover.
   • 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):

     I will not unshale the jest before it be ripe.

• “unshale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Hulsean, unheals, unleash