Definition of shoal

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

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Bank :: Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..
Shoaled :: Shoaled (imp. & p. p.) of Shoa.
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..
Overfall :: Overfall (n.) A turbulent surface of water, caused by strong currents setting over submerged ridges; also, a dangerous submerged ridge or shoal..
Shoaliness :: Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.
Shoal :: Shoal (v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place..
Shoal :: Shoal (a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water..
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
Sea Chart :: Sea chart () A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated..
Shoal :: Shoal (n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass..
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..
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..
Schooling :: Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.
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..
Shoaling :: Shoaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoa.
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..
Skull :: Skull (n.) A school, company, or shoal..
Shallow :: Shallow (superl.) Not deep; having little depth; 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..
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