Definition of shoal

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

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Shoaliness :: Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Camel :: Camel (n.) A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted..
Shallow :: Shallow (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.
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..
Shoaling :: Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.
Shallow :: Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
Skull :: Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal..
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..
Shoal :: Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water..
Flash :: Flash (n.) A reservoir and sluiceway beside a navigable stream, just above a shoal, so that the stream may pour in water as boats pass, and thus bear them over the shoal..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring..
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..
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow..
Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.
Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..
Shoaling :: Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoa.
Scull :: Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.
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..
Schooling :: Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
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