Definitions for schorls

schorls schorl

Spelling: [shawrl]
IPA: /ʃɔrl/

Schorls is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in schorls (chlorss).

Definitions for schorls

noun

  1. Mineralogy. a black tourmaline.

Origin of schorls

First recorded in 1755-65, schorl is from the German word Schörl

Examples for schorls

On its northern slope is a vast mass of schorl, the celebrated Roche Rock.

Greisen is closely connected with schorl rock both in its mineralogical composition and in its mode of origin.

The granite is dark red, often inclosing veins of quartz, crystallized and compact, and likewise well-formed crystals of schorl.

The exterior parts of the veins consist of a bluish quartz, very compact, and uniformly containing a great deal of schorl.

The black shining matter found near where are veins of tin, is schorl.

Some is black with schorl, some, as that of Mill Tor, white as statuary marble.

This is more especially true of chlorite, schorl, hornblende and augite.

Word Value for schorls
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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