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

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..

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

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

Shole :: Shole (n.) See Shoal.

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

Beacon :: Beacon (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners..

Shallow :: Shallow (n.) A place in a body of water where the water is not deep; a shoal; a flat; a shelf.

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 (a.) Becoming shallow gradually.

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

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..

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..

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

Scull :: Scull (n.) A shoal of fish.

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

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..

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..

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

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