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

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

Shoaliness :: Shoaliness (n.) The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.

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

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

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

Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.

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..

Schooling :: Schooling (a.) Collecting or running in schools or shoals.

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

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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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