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Shoaling :: Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoa.

Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.

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..

Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.

School :: School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish..

Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.

Balk :: Balk (v. i.) To indicate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring..

Shoaly :: Shoaly (a.) Full of shoals, or shallow places..

Overfall :: Overfall (n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal..

Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..

Shoaling :: Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.

Shoaled :: Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoa.

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..

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..

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..

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

Shallow :: Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.

Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow..

Hydrography :: Hydrography (n.) That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars..

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..

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