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noun

Shoal n. A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of people." "Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides."

Shoal n.

A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow. "The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their span." "Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor."

A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. "The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals."

verb

Shoal 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.

Shoal v. i. (past & past part. shoaled; pres. part. shoaling) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.

Shoal v. i. To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.

adjective

Shoal adj. Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.

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Etymology of 'Shoal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shoal" Quotes from Famous Books

... the trout toward the shoal. Again and again the fish broke for the deeper water and Lew had to give him line. But each time he stopped the rush and patiently worked the fish back toward the shoal. At last the trout was fairly on the edge of it. Lew began to pull steadily on his line and slid the tired fish into shallow ...

— The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss

... good deal of hesitation. But they were amply corroborated by Wilkes and others who followed many years later. "Nothing," says Wilkes, "can exceed the beauty of these waters and their safety. Not a shoal exists in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound or Hood's Canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a 74-gun ship. I venture nothing in saying there is no country in the ...

— Steep Trails • John Muir

... Here we had calms again, and the grass and barnacles grew very fast. Indeed, the ship's bottom was like a half-tide rock, and when the water washed up the sides, as she rolled, the noise made by the barnacles was like the surf on a sea-beach. We were followed for several days by a shoal of dolphins, which we caught in great numbers night and morning. Finally we got round the Cape, and to St. Helena, where we stayed four days, and employed men to assist us in chopping off grass and barnacles as far as we could reach. ...

— Notes by the Way in A Sailor's Life • Arthur E. Knights

... you do not care a rush whether yours are pardoned or no? And is it anything to you or to God that you believe in the life everlasting, if all your work, and hopes, and longings are confined to 'this bank and shoal of time'? Are you any more a Christian because of all that intellectual assent to these solemn verities? Is not your life like some secularised monastic chamber, with holy texts carved on the walls, and saintly ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

... corn, and spoiled some of our clothes: about one o'clock an Indian came running to the shore with a turkey on his back: several others soon joined him, but we had no intercourse with them. We then went on for three miles, but the ascent soon became so obstructed by sandbars and shoal water, that after attempting in vain several channels, we determined to rest for the night under some high bluffs on the south, and send out to examine the best channel. We had made eight miles along high bluffs on each ...

— History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

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