Definition of "shaly" [shal•y]

• Pertaining to or resembling shale. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The struggling line along the bank swayed back and forth, and finally a handful of surviving gorilla-men broke away and leaped down through the shaly gravel to the path below."
• "The photo of people on a shaly-slaty slope reminds me of similar trilobite expeditions maybe the rocks always look the same."
• "The soils formed in materials weathered from shale, shaly limestone, and clayey sediments, and tend to be deep, acidic, moderately well-drained, and slowly permeable."