"shilf" meaning in English

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          "text": "Five-and-twenty of them are tied together and laid at the depth of one fathom at most on sunk posts, as the sevrugas go to shallow places and among the shilf.",
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          "text": "Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump […]",
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          "ref": "2021, Heike Thieme, Mable: my naturally biggest Love to our dog !, page 64:",
          "text": "Reet is that shilf we have on older houses here. They do take it off sometimes and change to new.",
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        "straw or reeds."
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          "text": "Below the statum of tin ground is a bed of stiff clay called shilf or shale.",
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          "text": "So, too, will shilf, the name given to the little pieces of waste slate which are abundant in Cornwall: one part of shilf to two of mud and straw was the usual recipe for 'clob', as the Cornish often called it.",
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        "Coarse shale or slate fragments."
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        "(dialect) Coarse shale or slate fragments."
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