Definition of shoal

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Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water..

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Scull :: Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.
Shoaling :: Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoa.
Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..
Skull :: Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal..
Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.
Schooling :: Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
Shallow :: Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
Shoaling :: Shoaling (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.
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..
Shoal :: Shoal (v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals..
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..
Conder :: Conder (n.) One who watches shoals of fish; a balker. See Balker.
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..
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 (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..
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..
Shoaled :: Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoa.
School :: School (n.) A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish..
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
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