Shoal

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoal \Shoal\, v. i.
     To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it
     shoals.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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. --Marryat.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoal \Shoal\, n. [AS. scolu, sceolu, a company, multitude,
     crowd, akin to OS. skola; probably originally, a division,
     and akin to Icel. skilja to part, divide. See {Skill}, and
     cf. {School}. of fishes.]
     A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said
     especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass. "Great shoals of
     people." --Bacon.
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           Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides. --Waller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoal \Shoal\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Shoaled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shoaling}.]
     To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled
     about the place. --Chapman.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoal \Shoal\, a. [Cf. {Shallow}; or cf. G. scholle a clod,
     glebe, OHG. scollo, scolla, prob. akin to E. shoal a
     multitude.]
     Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoal \Shoal\, n.
     1. A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc.,
        is shallow; a shallow.
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              The depth of your pond should be six feet; and on
              the sides some shoals for the fish to lay their
              span.                                 --Mortimer.
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              Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory,
              And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
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              The god himself with ready trident stands,
              And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands,
              Then heaves them off the shoals.      --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shoal
       n 1: a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
       2: a stretch of shallow water [syn: {shallow}]
       3: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish
          swam by" [syn: {school}]
       v 1: make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal" [syn: {shallow}]
       2: become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" [syn: {shallow}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "shoal":
     a mass of, a world of, ankle-deep, army, bank, bar, barrier, bevy,
     bunch, cloud, clutter, colony, coral heads, coral reef, covey,
     cursory, depthless, drift, drive, drove, epidermal, flat, flight,
     flock, flocks, ford, gam, gang, hail, herd, hive, hook, host,
     ironbound coast, jam, jejune, kennel, knee-deep, large amount,
     ledges, lee shore, legion, light, litter, lots, many, masses of,
     mob, muchness, multitude, nest, not deep, numbers, on the surface,
     pack, pitfall, plurality, pod, pride, quantities, quicksands,
     quite a few, reef, rockbound coast, rocks, rout, ruck, sandbank,
     sandbar, sands, school, scores, shallow, shallow-rooted, shallows,
     shelf, shoal water, shoals, skin-deep, skulk, slight, sloth, spit,
     superficial, surface, swarm, thin, throng, tidal flats, tidy sum,
     trip, trivial, troop, undercurrent, undertow, unprofound, wetlands,
     worlds of