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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The local Irish designation of certain beds of shales, sandstones, and clays, containing thin, unworkable seams of coal. The calp belongs to the Lower Carboniferous series. See culm.

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  • noun geology A dark shaly limestone occurring in the Carboniferous limestone of Ireland.

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