SHOAL
\ʃˈə͡ʊl], \ʃˈəʊl], \ʃ_ˈəʊ_l]\
Definitions of SHOAL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
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a stretch of shallow water
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become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
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a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
By Princeton University
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full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals; "reefy shallows"; "shoaly waters"
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a stretch of shallow water
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become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time"
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a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
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A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
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A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
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To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
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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.
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A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; - said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
By Oddity Software
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To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
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A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
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A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
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To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
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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.
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A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; - said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Shoaly.
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SHOALINESS.
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To make or grow shallow.
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Of little depth; shallow.
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A shallow place in any body of water; a sand bank or -bar.
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To throng in shoals.
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A multitude; throng, as of fish.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A great multitude of fishes swimming together.
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A shallow: a place where the water of a river, sea, or lake is not deep: a sandbank.
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To grow shallow: to come upon shallows.
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SHOALINESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman