Definition of shoal

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Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass..

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Skull :: Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal..
Shoaliness :: Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow..
Balker :: Balker (n.) A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring..
Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..
School :: School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish..
Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..
Spit :: Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand..
Shoaled :: Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoa.
Sea Chart :: Sea chart () A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated..
Shoal :: 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..
Scull :: Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.
Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..
Shoal :: Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place..
Shoaly :: Shoaly (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (n.) The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves..
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass..
Shun :: Shun (v. t.) To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice..
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