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单词 shillet
释义 ˈshillet s.w. dial.
Also shillot, -at, shillett, shellet, -at, shilt.
[Perh. f. sheel v.; the word may go back to an OE. *scielet.]
= shale n.2 Also attrib.
1777in Eng. Dial. Dict., Shellet.1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 11 Here the soil is of a good depth upon the shillot.1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 359/2 The earthy slates..were interspersed with blue shillat slates.1859Murchison Siluria xiii. (ed. 3) 344 The shillat of Cornwall.1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xxiii, Shilt and shingle glitter on the bare tops above.1886W. Somerset Word-bk., Shillet,..the disintegrated top layer of the Devonian clay slate so common in West Somerset and North Devon.1892H. Hutchinson Fairway lsl. 20 He..gathered from the road a handful of loose shillett.
Hence ˈshillety a. (also shillotty, shellety, etc.), consisting of shillet.
1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 24 A tender loam of a dark grey cast on a shillotty understratum.1830Jas. Savage Hist. Carhampton 209 The soil is..a white rag, or as it is here called, a shellety soil.1887J. W. Fortescue Stag⁓hunting Exmoor 181 Our hind has taken advantage of the shillety ground to double about a good deal.
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