Shoal
[ʃəʊl] or [ʃol]
Definition
(noun.) a stretch of shallow water.
(noun.) a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide.
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Definition
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Checker: Zachariah
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Crowd, throng, multitude, swarm, horde, gang.[2]. Shallow, sand-bank.
v. n. Grow shallow.
a. Shallow.
Checked by Jennie
Definition
n. a great multitude of fishes swimming together.—v.i. to crowd.—adv. Shoal′wise in shoals.
n. a shallow: a place where the water of a river sea or lake is not deep: a sandbank.—adj. shallow.—v.i. to grow shallow: to come upon shallows.—ns. Shoal′er a coasting vessel; Shoal′iness; Shoal′ing filling up with shoals; Shoal′-mark a mark set up to indicate shoal-water; Shoal′ness shallowness.—adj. Shoal′y full of shoals or shallows: not deep.
Checker: Newman
Examples
- I HAVE lingered thus long on the extreme bank, the wasting shoal that stretched into the stream of life, dallying with the shadow of death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A Shoal of Barnacles Mr Henry Gowan and the dog were established frequenters of the cottage, and the day was fixed for the wedding. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She marked the shoal for the rest of the fleet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They all dropped into the water, and were swimming together like a shoal of seals. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Memphis and Charleston Railroad strikes the Tennessee at Eastport, Mississippi, and follows close to the banks of the river up to the shoals. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have got clear of some shoals, and have more sea-room. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Shoals of our straggling youth have been swept into the ocean by an unexpected breeze! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- As we have seen, Hood succeeded in crossing the Tennessee River between Muscle Shoals and the lower shoals at the end of October, 1864. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- With Fort Henry in our hands we had a navigable stream open to us up to Muscle Shoals, in Alabama. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Checker: Luther