Definition of "shaley" []

• Pertaining to or resembling shale. (adjective)

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• "The side trail was too narrow for the cart, so Skip abandoned it at the turnoff and limped after the others on foot, down a rocky path that hugged the base of a shaley cliff for a hundred yards or so."
• "I was anxious as I drove Route 40 through the shaley, steep bit of country, where the hills are close like the bellows of an accordion."
• "They left New York City in the late 1960s for a shaley piece of ground in the Catskills and began learning to grow and raise their own food."